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TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US (www.bbc.com)

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[–] livus@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And Biden himself has a tiktok account that pumps out content.

The whole thing is very cynical and weird.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

It's a piss poor attempt to try control tiktok and ensure they play along. They don't really want it banned, they just want to control the flow of information and it's absolutely destroying the illusion of the first amendment!