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Brb.

Can’t believe his campaign thought they should venture in there. Tiktok is home to the generation that doesn’t watch cable news and hasn’t yet been brainwashed that it’s somehow okay to genocide children.

Edit. Yep some of them have been scrubbed all the way to a few anodyne comments saying shit like “you’ve got my vote mr president” but a lot of them are still flooded with creative ways to filter evade with Rafah and genocide references. Gonna give an intern repetitive strain injury.

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if someone could take a bullet for the team, install that malware, and try to convince them about civil resistance that would be great.

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You give too much credit to tiktok kids. They were running themselves over with their own cars just a few years ago.

Even their advocacy is a fad.

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And so did idiots 25 years ago ghost ridin the whip

I do think the tide pods thing was unique to tik tok

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As far as I know, there were very, very few cases of anyone actually eating a Tide pod. Like single digits.

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@Arcane_Trixster not “giving them credit” just pointing out that their media consumption practices are not the same as older generations and that has given them a different perspective.

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Boomers vote for Trump and Biden you can’t get dumber than that.

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Use your words, FFS.

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@Hyperreality fair point and China censors the hell out of its genZ. But China’s method is to brainwash people that what it’s doing in Xinjang somehow isn’t happening.

Bombing Gaza is much harder to hide, so the party line becomes “it is but it’s ok because reaons”.

As far as I could see Tiktok was censoring things involving Palestine as well which is why a lot of FYP content is about watermelons.

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There is no evidence of the “genicide in Xinjiang” besided the US, US allies and other sources stemming from Radio Free Asia, a known CIA mouth peice. when an idependent investigation came out by the orginasation of Islamic and Turkic States, investigated, they found no evidence of genocide.

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I don’t know what the fuck they were expecting?

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I thought we were discouraging use of TikTok sue to Chinese influence, especially for government use. Why is Biden using it?

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Because it is the new tool presidents all over the world are using to reach younger audiences whenever they want to win the elections.

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Because unfortunately, you have to meet the customers voters where they are. You’re not gonna reach gen z with cable ads anymore.

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He’s not using it for government use. He’s using it for campaign use, to campaign to voters who are on TikTok.

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They don’t want the app on government issued work phones.

These boomers are free to dance and talk about their favorite cookies all they want on their private devices.

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To be fair… Government devices should be locked down. They’re not personal devices.

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Fuck tik tok. He should have a mastadon instance.

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Do you have any to say about the topic of the article?

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Fuck tik tok.

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So no.

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Why do you care? It’s Lemmy. Half of the content including comments are shitposts.

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Didn’t they remove TikTok from government phones? I feel like that’s something that happened?

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yes, it’s also illegal to use government phones for campaign purposes, so it’s fine to use TicTok on a campaign owned device.

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