AOC Speaks Out On Trump, TikTok & Rise Of Proper Wing Technocrats

There’s a improvement, and I wish to present you this. The under is from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who uploaded a video discussing the matter on Instagram.

Now, if you go surfing to TikTok, you’ll see this:

“Welcome again! Thanks on your persistence and help. On account of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is again within the U.S.!”

To begin with, Donald Trump is not president proper now.

He’s a personal citizen. He doesn’t have entry to presidential powers. He doesn’t have the power to do any of that.

Please perceive that TikTok’s choice to call Trump within the notification is a alternative. They’re signaling that they’ve agreed to privately collaborate with Donald Trump and the Trump administration.

For all of these considerations that folks had been saying that TikTok is gonna be used as a propaganda device by the Chinese language, perceive they’re utilizing it as a propaganda device for the appropriate.

Now, I need you all to place all of the items collectively as a result of what this successfully means is that each mass social media platform in the USA has been taken over by the appropriate wing, aside from Blue Sky (however Blue Sky remains to be very small, comparatively).

So after I say put the items collectively:

Elon Musk took over Twitter, and there’s open reporting that they have artificially manipulated the algorithms to spice up right-wing content material on what he re-branded as “X” and to amplify harassment.

Then you may have Meta. You’ve got Mark Zuckerberg saying that they’re mainly additionally bending the knee to Trump with their adjustments to truth checking, no matter how efficient that was within the first place.

Now TikTok is now saying, “Hey, we’re agreeing we’ll use our push notification system for all 170 million American customers to advertise Donald Trump.”

Simply perceive that authorities bulletins like this with corporations, they by no means identify politicians — they’ll often identify regulation or coverage. TikTok is making an specific settlement to do that.

And if I had been a betting particular person, they in all probability are making a cope with Donald Trump to not simply use these push notifications but in addition take into account algorithmic adjustments, which is ironic. On the time when individuals voted for the TikTok ban, there was loads of pro-Palestinian content material. That argument was getting used as being someway “anti-American,” which I suppose supporting human rights is someway dangerous.

So what does this imply for us?

We’re on the eve of an authoritarian administration. That is what twenty first century fascism is beginning to appear to be. Republicans mannequin themselves after Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. You possibly can look to Hungary to get a style of how they’ll attempt to management media and firms in the USA. This can be a form of entrée to that.

So far as what we do:

This can be a time of experimentation. Lots of people can and can nonetheless use platforms, however I additionally look in the direction of locations the place you may have extra possession and develop your audiences there — like Blue Sky. (Editor’s Word: We’re additionally going with Fanbase.)

Extra quickly, Alexandria

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