| ▲ | jagermo 12 hours ago |
| 1) to be honest, when I see how russia, Iran and other states influence all other networks (especially when it comes to voting), not sure how tiktok is worse than all of them - just think of Facebook & Cambridge Analytica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana... 2) yes, that is an issue. 3) fair point. |
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| ▲ | Manuel_D 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Russia illegally spent something like $100,000 on political ads. Thats basically nothing compared to aggregate political spending. |
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| ▲ | mjparrott 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It is mind blowing to me that this fact is not widely understood. A mountain was made out of a molehill. $4B was spent in 2016. $12B in 2024. Yet $100,000 somehow is believed to have made any difference whatsoever. Literally 0.0025% of the total in 2016. *Source: https://www.emarketer.com/content/political-ad-spend-nearly-... | | |
| ▲ | seizethecheese 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is, of course, because both USA political parties run their own propaganda machines | |
| ▲ | lossolo 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Because it's a good scapegoat, why take responsibility for losing an election when you can easily shift the blame to someone else? |
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| ▲ | epolanski 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Meanwhile US channels this propaganda money through no profits. | | |
| ▲ | dv_dt 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yup exactly the same thing is happening only with money laundered through nonprofits and political pacs. Once its there the same buy data and place ads & influence is completely legal - which makes the singled out ban on TikTok at odds with the stated purpose of it |
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| ▲ | throwawayq3423 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 1. This was a scandal for FB, not a feature. |
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| ▲ | next_xibalba 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Cambridge Analytica had zero effect on the 2016 elections. It was the mother of all nothingburgers. I encourage all who see this comment to dig into the truth of that case. The huge difference is that while foreign adversaries run influence networks on other social media platforms (and are opposed and combatted by those platforms) TikTok (the platform itself) is controlled by the foreign adversary (the CCP). |
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| ▲ | throwawayq3423 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | It was more a proof of concept. If that could be done on a small scale, why not a large one? And elections are decided by margins, pushing them even slightly has massive, irrevocable consequences. |
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