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Summary

TikTok users reported that searches for anti-Trump content, such as "Donald Trump rigged election," returned "No results found" messages in the U.S., while the same searches worked abroad.

Users demonstrated via VPNs that the restrictions seem specific to U.S. accounts, sparking accusations of censorship and claims TikTok is becoming "Trump's propaganda arm."

Some anti-Trump hashtags also appear blocked, while pro-Trump terms remain visible.

TikTok has not commented on the issue, fueling further concerns about free speech and potential political influence over the platform.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Mark my words.

TikTok will become another right wing cesspool. Just like Facebook. Just like X/Twitter.

Time to swap to another app. It's not that hard. It really isn't. We're pretty much all on Lemmy because we got tired of Reddit. Just. Swap. Apps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Can anyone trust tiktok to not share your information with the Trump administration now?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't have TikTok. Anyone here have it and can confirm this themselves?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

It's specifically the rigged election conspiracy. I have TikTok and have seen several anti Trump videos just today.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I saw this post a few days ago, and the person shared screenshots. https://midwest.social/post/22024411

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[–] [email protected] 221 points 2 days ago (10 children)

If a full Apple modal dialog screen thanking Trump pre-emptively isn't enough to convince you TikTok is bootlicking, I don't know what to tell you.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Something that occurred to me this morning is that its a bit worse than just them sucking up to Trump with that to get unbanned; to my understanding, he's just stated he wont enforce the ban law, so if he was to change his mind, he wouldnt need congress to pass another I dont think? He'd just need to start enforcing the existing one. That means that TikTok has a strong incentive to continue sucking up to him throughout his whole term, to stay on his good side. But it goes further, because it also creates an incentive for other corporate social medias that compete with TikTok to do the same (though admittedly, their owners seem to want to anyway), in the hopes that they can convince him to enforce the ban again and remove some of their competition.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Whitehouse.gov was scrubbed yesterday too. I tried to search Biden’s protections on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and got the 404 not found error and redirected “home” to a video of the helicopter landing and Trump getting out on the Whitehouse lawn.

Pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov

Does this not work? I'm not sure to what extent it is archived.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 18 hours ago

All that should be preserved and should be easily accessible by the public. Links for past governance should never be removed.

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