wait so is tiktok part of meta now or what?

#tiktok #tiktokban #tiktokrefugee

lies

#tiktok major stakeholder and the guy who helped found it with his money is *the* largest #GOP donor and funds a #rightwing thinktank in #Israel to warp the judiciary and keep #netanyahu in power:

#jeffyass

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/jeff-yass-anti-muslim-pro-israel-donations

#tiktok is no friend of #Palestine

#tiktok is no friend to #activism

Never was

Anyone who believes otherwise is being played for a fool, spied on and manipulated, helping everything they stand against

#tiktokban

Just to make sure everyone has the facts straight: the push for the #tiktokban did not start with #Trump and it didn’t start with coverage of #Palestine, although I’m sure those things added fuel to the fire.

#Zuckerberg started a lobbying campaign to get #TikTok banned in 2021 because it was eating #Meta’s lunch, especially with young people.

The Washington Post covered it in 2022, back when it was still a real newspaper.

#USpol #uspolitics

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#Gaza ceasefire and #Tiktok ban happening at the same time? I know correlation is not causation but, you know, gotta wonder #gazaceasefire #tiktokban

@Matthias Eben. TikTok hat nichts mit Meinungsfreiheit zu tun, ist für mich im Laufe der Zeit ähnlich anstrengend geworden wie Twitter.
Aber wie @⚝ Mirko ⚝ schon ganz richtig schrieb... bei denen fehlt es an vielen!

Schon die Hashtags #tiktokban und #tiktokrefugee entdeckt?

hiya, #tiktokrefugee here. just trying to find my people and make my way off of meta apps. will follow back. :) 🩷 #tiktok #tiktokban

Mastodon is taking off… over 11,000 accounts within the last hour!

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#tiktokban #tiktokrefugee #tiktok #mastodon #fediverse #meta

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https://mastodon.social/@usercounts/113853491059615715

Unreal. This is what I see on TikTok right now. The whole #tiktokban is just a big political grift.

#TikTok to officially shutdown in the US. #TikTokBan

RT @maxschrems
The most amazing thing from an EU legal perspective about the #TikTokBan in the US, is that this argued based on the Right to Freedom of Speech -- because the US has no Constitutional Right to Property or to Conduct a Business (other than the EU).. 🙈

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyng762q4eo

And the # Chinese perspective on #TikTokBan “I’m still shocked you guys have 2 jobs just to cover… I thought you didn’t like veggies”

#RedNote #xiaohongshu

Honestly the amount of people saying that Chinese people are so nice on RedNote is kinda amusing. I was thinking, just how bad is *their* social media?? Then I went back to Twitter and remembered hahahah
(I don't have Tiktok because the brainrot there is an IQ killer)
FYI, tbh Americans got lucky with #RedNote - it's an app with a large female base, more like Pinterest than anything. If they had chosen Weibo, whoooboooy. I think diplomatic relations would crumble there and then.
But tbh, Chinese are mostly nice to waiguoren. But they will be mean if you offend them, 100%

#SocialMedia #TikTokBan #TiktokRefugee

I am getting balcony envy from all the gorgeous balconies I see on 小红书😆

#RedNote #China #Tiktokban #XiaoHongShu

I’m not making any value judgements on China or its society. I am simply reporting Americans experience of talking directly to mainland Chinese people for the first time via #TikTokBan
#RedNote #xiaohongshu

@fl

Chinese law school costs $798 p.a. versus US law school at $450k total

#ConsciousnessRaising #TikTokBan #RedNote #xiaohongshu

US people asking why China is so much more advanced than the US

#ConsciousnessRaising
#TikTokBan #RedNote #xiaohongshu

"Five years later, 17% of all US adults regularly get news from TikTok. It has put me in front of far more people than legacy media ever has – and I am a former BBC journalist. It has done the same for countless others, almost overwhelmingly young people, who, seemingly abandoned by mainstream media, took the chance to represent themselves."

An excellent piece on what's at stake.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/tiktok-democratic-social-platform-us-ban-silicon-valley-chinese-app

#tiktokban #freespeech #media

So now that there's a ceasefire in Israel, uh, maybe reverse the TikTok ban? I mean, that's really what this was all about.

#tiktokban #ceasefire #israel

The most amazing thing about everything that has happened just before the TikTok ban is that thousands upon thousands of Americans are not only realizing how government and billionaires control what they are able to say and see, but they are actively resisting all this with good-natured impishness that has completely frightened the people in power. They can't control us anymore. And now they have to prove we can trust them. But they can't and won't.

#tiktokban #media #freespeech

"Public Diplomacy" = #propaganda operation

The ban on #TikTok will not apply to certain US State Dept employees responsible for “public diplomacy,” according to an internal cable signed by Antony Blinken. According to the document, the Biden admin has exempted these personnel from the ban “regardless of any potential failure of TikTok to be divested of its foreign PRC ownership.”.

#Biden Administration Quietly Carves #TikTokBan Loophole for Itself, Leaked Document Shows
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/biden-administration-quietly-carves

good

fuck #tiktok

but it's an extinction level event that has already happened. the one before was larger than a possible #usa #ban for 120 million american #tiktokers-

#india severed 200 million tiktokers in 2020

they adapted and moved on:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/heres-what-happened-when-india-banned-tiktok

#bantiktok #tiktokban

The biggest #shadowban ever. TIL: The US government is censoring TikTok because of Gaza, not China. https://matzko.substack.com/p/the-pro-israel-techies-who-got-tiktok #tiktokban #palestine