Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.
Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.
Fwiw I fully support your reasoning that TikTok in particular should be viewed as a source of particularly insidious propaganda at this moment. I’ve been tracking this for years and it seems very obvious to me.
However… when you’re talking about Instagram you’re talking about the company that offered the tools used in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Disinformation on Meta is not new, and quite suspiciously, Meta is shutting down CrowdTangle (a tool developed by Meta for tracking disinformation) just months before the US federal election. https://www.wired.com/story/meta-kills-crucial-transparency-tool-worst-possible-time/
Fuck TikTok, and also fuck Meta. I can be happy that tiktok might be banned and also despise Meta