Ultimately I feel that this deal is so skeezy and coated in the slime of Trumpist corruption that I wanted it to go to the worst possible company and it looks like this happened.
Microsoft Statement on TikTok
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Re: Microsoft Statement on TikTok
#42> We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security? > combatting disinformation There you have it. I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy. The kind of video that would just be invisible or outright banned from Youtube…
>Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security? Everyone who believes Facebook was used to influence the 2016 election should believe TikTok poses a similar threat. I'd agree that the threat is overblown, but many serious people, in good faith, seriously believe it.
I would say the possible threat is more than FB is assumed to have been responsible for, whether it is true or not is a different story.
While FB's perceived threat was(is?) targeting of users on behavioral models, for misinformation campaigns. Tiktok's goes beyond this, with a state actor pushing its propaganda with active blessing of the platform itself and curbing dissent against itself. Considering how we have seen companies self censor for CCP, I wouldn't say the curbing dissent thing is far fetched.
On a similar note, I used to consider SCMP reporting of high standard different from Xinhua/CGTN and free from interference as it was based in HK. But lately I have seen them publish stories to push CCP agenda without proper fact checking.
Re: Microsoft Statement on TikTok
#43> We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security? > combatting disinformation There you have it. I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy. The kind of video that would just be invisible or outright banned from Youtube…
>Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security? Everyone who believes Facebook was used to influence the 2016 election should believe TikTok poses a similar threat. I'd agree that the threat is overblown, but many serious people, in good faith, seriously believe it.
But then this is evidence that whether it’s an American company or Chinese company has little import on its ability to subvert elections.
Re: Microsoft Statement on TikTok
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
ByteDance announced they weren't going to hand over the recommendation algo for TikTok which seems like a bit of a dealbreaker. ~~ https://twitter.com/verge/status/1305285085722292224~~ Right link: https://twitter.com/business/status/1305179144171421708
Your link has nothing to do with recommendation engines? Perhaps you pasted the wrong one?
Oh whoops, I picked the tweet next to this one: https://twitter.com/business/status/1305179144171421708.
Re: Microsoft Statement on TikTok
#45> We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security? > combatting disinformation There you have it. I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy. The kind of video that would just be invisible or outright banned from Youtube…
Wait, you don't believe Tik Tok is a national security threat? Are we living in different worlds? Handing over content control to an arm's length foreign government controlled company of our youngest minds isn't a national security risk?
Re: Microsoft Statement on TikTok
#46> We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security? > combatting disinformation There you have it. I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy. The kind of video that would just be invisible or outright banned from Youtube…
Yes. They’re saying the reason the Houston Chinese embassy was closed down out of nowhere was they were using TikTok data to target/provoke protestors via TikTok in regards to George Floyd protests. People were intentionally targeted to further fan the flames of unrest in this country. It’s also been speculated that TikTok is using the data they get from the US to train their facial recognition and AI tools better.
Can you add more context and links, and more info about these claims?
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#47Seems like killing tiktok would be the perfect way to turn out the youth vote.
Re: Microsoft Statement on TikTok
#48> We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security? > combatting disinformation There you have it. I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy. The kind of video that would just be invisible or outright banned from Youtube…
Absolutely. If they can tweak the algo to hide the CCP critical videos, while promoting any US critical one, regardless the merit of the information, coupled to reach and spread, that's information warfare.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
Re: Microsoft Statement on TikTok
#49They found a higher bidder? Or did export restrictions from China hinder sale?
ByteDance announced they weren't going to hand over the recommendation algo for TikTok which seems like a bit of a dealbreaker. ~~ https://twitter.com/verge/status/1305285085722292224~~ Right link: https://twitter.com/business/status/1305179144171421708
This recommendation algo bit looks unnecessarily hyped up, it is not as if they have cracked a new superior recommendation method. From an article that was posted few days back, it seemed like collaborative filtering with more signals being collected about engagement. Didn't look like something which say FB or Snap won't be able to do.
Re: Microsoft Statement on TikTok
#50> We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security? > combatting disinformation There you have it. I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy. The kind of video that would just be invisible or outright banned from Youtube…
>Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security? Everyone who believes Facebook was used to influence the 2016 election should believe TikTok poses a similar threat. I'd agree that the threat is overblown, but many serious people, in good faith, seriously believe it.
Current US intelligence officials [1] are among those serious people who seriously believe that social media is being used to influence American elections.
[1]: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-election-interference...