US TikTok ban linked to pro-Palestine content rather than China threat, insiders reveal
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I think that has more to do with what’s popular. When the Ukraine war first started TikTok had a ton of pro Ukraine content.
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It was obvious to everyone and their cat.
The internet is a massive US PSYOP for which it's going to fight with all its might to not lose control over.
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I'm a software developer and that's really not true. Theres an entire industry based on algorithm manipulation by people who never see the actual algorithm code - its called SEO.
Even the most complex algorithm that was sent from the future by aliens would be possible to manipulate given local control.
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By that logic, there's no such thing as "golden retriever" and "cocker spaniel" either, since both are canis familiaris.
Words mean things. Use them properly.
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I don’t think SEO is comparable to these content recommendation algorithms. Maybe it is easy and I’m wrong but everyone seems to just be speculating wildly at this point and it doesn’t seem too useful. How can we get to the bottom of what’s really happening in a way that can be verified with evidence.
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Nah man I run a couple of seo optimized technical blogs that are getting thousands of views every day mostly through SEO. Its a bit more simple today cause Google is just giving up as all you need domain authority, keywords, backlinks and good content to do well but without those you will never get front page, period.
There are also incredible amount of SEO utilities that drive content creation like keyword difficulty and trend following so it is very much the same algorithm manipulation but through prediction and reverse engineering.
I'd love for SEO to not be real and just make stuff but reality is SEO and even technical SEO (like semantic html) is required for any form of success in publishing content.
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Huh? I never said SEO isn’t real it’s just a totally different process from the one we’re discussing.
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Why not both?
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Its probably one of the factors, but its not like that was the sole reason.
trump already tried that in his first term, way before the gaza genocide. The goal is to force them to bend the knee and become a right wing propaganda machine. Suppressing info on israeli warcrimes is just an added bonus
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Most big bills have multiple factions profiting from it. But what pushed the TikTok ban over the bipartisan bill was definitely their stance of (non) censorship on Palestine.
What was also telling is that right after Trumps election TikTok was allowed to stay but it started banning the phrase "free Palestine"
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In your OP you said that "it's unclear how <complex> algorithms could be manipulated" and I've pointed out that wete literally doing that right now with one of the most complex algorithms ever made without having any clue of the source code basically.
If the owner of the algorithm wants to manipulate it then it's absolute piece of cake of a job even if it's a million times more complex than Googles ranking or the current tiktoks algo. The complexity of the algorithm in no way prevents manipulation.
