Comment by ok123456

Comment by ok123456 a day ago

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They have?

They released a Marty Rimm-level report citing that pro-Palestinian was mentioned more than pro-Israeli content in ratios that differed from Meta products. This was the 'smoking gun' of manipulation when it's more of a sign Meta was the one doing the manipulation.

tptacek a day ago

The opinion today has almost nothing to do with how content is controlled on the platform; the court is very clear that they'd have upheld the statute based purely on the data collection issue.

  • ok123456 a day ago

    That report was pivotal during the vote for the law and belies the actual interests.

    • tptacek a day ago

      The court addresses that directly, and every member of it, despite agreeing on little else, disagrees with you.

derektank a day ago

I don't know what Congress has said but there absolutely is evidence that TikTok has been used to spy on users for political reasons. A US based engineer claims that he saw evidence that Hong Kong protestors were spied on in 2018 at the behest of a special committee representing the CCP's interests within ByteDance. This is not surprising, most major corporations within China maintain a special committee representing the government's interests to company executives

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/6/7/china-spied-on-ho...

  • ok123456 a day ago

    The DHS does that in the United States.

    Every major social media and dating application has a law enforcement portal. This was documented in BlueLeaks.

    • derektank a day ago

      Do law enforcement portals provide current location information? There's an extended history of the TikTok being used to spy on the location of user devices

      https://archive.ph/kt0fY

      • ok123456 a day ago

        Yes, in some cases. Grindr is the most obvious one.