2004: The Internet will lead to a utopian society without gatekeepers, without censorship, where we get our information from each other and primary sources, not media companies!
2024: The Internet is based on algorithmic attention. Those who control the algorithms control what parts of the immeasurably large pile of data will get attention and which not. Yet they are protected by the same intermediary liability laws as if they were traditional web forums, blog hosters, wikis with no personalized algorithm (for which those laws are very good and necessary).
https://lemmy.world/comment/11235801
Stop using this to push your agenda about censorship and whatever. Censorship has never lead to anything good. Read the history books.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Where did I defend censorship?
They are confusing censorship with manipulation. The algorithm is working.
WTF cares? Why the fk is the left so hell bent on censorship and controlling of all narratives?
“Why are leftists so concerned over foreign authoritarian governments directly influencing the elections in their countries???”
Unless there’s a clear violation of elections, like ballot stuffing and fraudulent votes by non-citizens and dead citizens… I could give a fk less. People have a right to speak their mind whether intelligent or psycho babbles.
You are either incredibly naive or speak in bad faith. Pushing propaganda to misled the public in elections is much more dangerous than stuffing a few ballots into the box.
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Chinese company bytedance tries to fragilise western democracies episode 1937392
American company meta tries to fragilise western democracies and personal freedoms episode 1937392
Chinesecompanybytedancetries to fragilisewesterndemocracies episode 1937392Logically the number should be higher than the previous comments (just sayin’).
No no, this is a parallel show running right after the one before.
In my experience Tiktok isn’t pushing it, YouTube shorts however very much is. For me at least
The children will defend tiktok with their lives, crying about how it doesn’t matter non-allied foreign powers can manipulate the algos and narratives.
I’m neither a child nor defending tiktok but it doesn’t mater who manipulates it. No country," allied" or otherwise, should interfere in the democratic process of another country.
I don’t see this as a China problem. It’s a lack of regulations and oversight problem. Allied foreign powers (or one specific power to be precise) push far right via social media onto Europe as well.
It’s both.
The companies who do this shit absolutely need to be regulated way more aggressively.
TikTok (ByteDance), being a Chinese company based in the PRC, is compelled to operate in partnership with the CCP by law, which gives the CCP an insane degree of visibility and control into their systems. I would be absolutely unsurprised to find that the CCP is compelling them to tweak their algorithms and push specific content to specific audiences, in addition to the data gathering they’re surely engaged in. Source: I work for an oncology biotech, and we halted our Chinese efforts because there was apparently no legal way to square the circle with regard to data privacy/HIPAA considerations.
He doesn’t see that specific allied power interfering with European politics because he is from the US.
They maybe the only major party who talk what youth might want. Most other party almost ignore youth.
But then AFD basically reviving the “Hitlerjugend” (hitler youth), so that is that.
what youth might want
A pure aryan skull shape?
Oohhhhh noooooooooo The Youth aren’t getting what they Waaaaaant! Politics is bad!
Ooooh the Huge Manatee!!
Terrible headline.
god i can’t imagine getting politics on tiktok i thank goddess every day i’m well in the confines of booktok, piratetok, hazbintok, and cattok.
They push whoever uses more bots and pay better advertisement.
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The same happened with the Finnish equivalent of the AfD, the Finns Party. Under 25’s are now more conservative than Millennials or iirc even Gen X which is pretty fucking wild
