EU Summons TikTok CEO After Romanian Election Shocker

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Post by preaching5271 » Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 7:15 AM UTC

EU Summons TikTok CEO After Romanian Election Shocker
romania-insider.com

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Post by pavlov » Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 7:51 AM UTC

It’s well known that TikTok uses human curation and weighting to a far greater extent than other social media platforms. The others primarily try to hide and remove unwanted content, but TikTok actively picks what gets shown.

(Twitter apparently now has a patchwork of hacks like the famous “author_is_elon” multiplier that slipped into their public source code release, but that’s nothing like TikTok’s meticulous selection process for algorithmic boosting.)

It would be good to have more visibility into this process because it wields massive influence among the 13-28 demographic, roughly.

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Post by infotainment » Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 8:04 AM UTC

It is a travesty that western countries haven't banned TikTok altogether.

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Post by jumping_frog » Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 8:10 AM UTC

infotainment wrote: post #3

It is a travesty that western countries haven't banned TikTok altogether.

Western countries do the same thing with colour revolutions.

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Post by switch007 » Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 8:12 AM UTC

That's certainly easier than sitting down and questioning your own decisions over the last couple of decades and wondering why people are voting in ways you don't like

(For the record I'm not a Tiktok user and I think it's a net negative to society)

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Post by isoprophlex » Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 8:12 AM UTC

infotainment wrote: post #3

It is a travesty that western countries haven't banned TikTok altogether.

The information warfare situation is highly asymmetric, and we seem to just let it fester on.

The west doesn't have ubiquitous mind control devices deployed behind the great firewall. That this situation persists is a signal, to me, that our leaders aren't well equipped to deal with the realities of tech in 2024.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 8:15 AM UTC

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Post by consumer451 » Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 8:18 AM UTC

The US VP elect has threaten withdrawal from NATO if Twitter is regulated in the EU.

There appears to be no such threat regarding TikTok.

This is a test of the EU. If TikTok is not banned quickly, it's not a good sign.

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Post by arkh » Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 8:20 AM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #2

It’s well known that TikTok uses human curation and weighting to a far greater extent than other social media platforms. The others primarily try to hide and remove unwanted content, but TikTok actively picks what gets shown. (Twitter apparently now has a patchwork of hacks like the famous “author_is_elon” multiplier that slipped into their public source code release, but that’s nothing like TikTok’s meticulous selec…

> massive influence among the 13-28 demographic

So not really the people who vote.

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Post by kranke155 » Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 8:21 AM UTC

isoprophlex wrote: post #6

infotainment wrote: post #3

It is a travesty that western countries haven't banned TikTok altogether.

The information warfare situation is highly asymmetric, and we seem to just let it fester on. The west doesn't have ubiquitous mind control devices deployed behind the great firewall. That this situation persists is a signal, to me, that our leaders aren't well equipped to deal with the realities of tech in 2024.

Pretty much.