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TikTok is allowing users to spread manipulated videos of Biden, despite the platform's policies (www.mediamatters.org)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I finally made a TikTok recently. On desktop, I couldn't follow anybody, and after a week I couldn't upload videos. Downloaded the mobile app, and my phone battery started losing 40-50% more battery per day, despite less than 5 minutes of usage per day in the tiktok app (uninstalled tiktok and all of a sudden my battery issues are gone).

Some time in the last week, I was suspended for having my twitch name visible in a tiktok. Or at least I assume so, since they never actually told me why I was suspended, or even that I was until I tried to login to upload a video.

What I'm getting at is, fuck tiktok.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Fuck the CCP.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wait tell they see American platforms like Facebook!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

But what about...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Fuck them too.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

What's he gonna do, ban it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

hmm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I never used TikTok so I'm commenting on the assumption that now things are the same everywhere.

I can believe that there is a lot of manipulated content. But then when it comes to decide which content is manipulated and which isn't most of the time the decision is the opposite of the truth, except for that content manipulated on purpose to provide the false alternative and trap the discussion between two falsehoods.