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Romania orders election recount after TikTok bias claims
EU investigates TikTok over Romanian presidential election safeguards
What happened on TikTok around the annulled Romanian presidential election? An investigation and poll
The Chinese government is using TikTok to meddle in elections, ODNI says
And finally we have the official statement from TikTok... Our commitment to election integrity
Not one word of this "commitment" should be trusted.
Maybe I am "missing the point", but you seem to be somehow missing the entire reality of what is actually going on.
This is not about "all social media", this is about specific influence campaigns being conducted to manipulate political outcomes via TikTok either with the PRC's blessing or under their direct instruction. It is real, it is intentional, it is happening right now, and your "smell test" is fucking broken because all of the actual evidence demonstrates that banning TikTok is the correct move.
Isn't musk doing very obvious and very intentional political influence with Twitter, for example in Germany? Why isn't Twitter also banned?