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TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 9 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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Donald Trump has successfully used xenophobia and fake concerns about propaganda and national security to get what he’s long wanted: TikTok (and its fat ad revenues) are poised to be sold off to his right wing billionaire buddies and, inevitably, slowly converted into a right wing propaganda safe space.

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

Early reporting by the Wall Street Journal also indicates that existing TikTok users will have to migrate to a new app.

If this is true it's a massive opportunity for a competitor to step in