"TikTok is stealing your data."

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Apparently, Meta has just taken part in a huge destabilizing propaganda campaign here in Brazil. The kind that criminal law has punishment for.

It will certainly take a while to gather all evidence and verify it, so I'm saving the popcorn for later. But I just ensured I have enough kernel for a US-sized portion...

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Another one: Elon Musk is pushing the whole Grooming Gang propaganda on X to cause tensions in the UK. As if nobody cares about victims when the perpetrator happens to be brown. It's absolute populist BS.

He is also saying that the parliament should be dissolved, and is throwing around more outrageous accusations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/01/04/elon-musk-pushes-for-britains-king-charles-to-dissolve-parliament-as-lawmakers-say-tesla-ceo-is-misinformed/

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Hey, child, we can prove you and your state dept propaganda wrong now.

You really should delete this obvious and easily disproven misinformation.

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I don't like or use TikTok, but when I see the US politicians and TV "Security experts" spiting nonsense arguments to justify banning it shows to me that this is a frivolous case to benefit META and Alphabet rather than a genuine concern in data collection and privacy.

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with obvious political agendas

On the case of Brazil, I think it has economical reasons. Meta sells stuff that compete with the social infrastructure it was trying to destabilize.

I would really like to see some laws against media concentration. It's not even important who the media is. Instead, we have some laws that are the opposite of that, so if we solve the Meta problem, something else is due to break shortly after.

But hey, it's entertaining anyway.

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They absolutely should. In fact I'd be surprised if they didn't do something about it eventually.

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Also, they don't care about the data. They care about the influence.

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The average Chinese citizen doesn't have much access to the internet.

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None that are comprehensive and strong like all the rest of the G7

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They did. Divisions H and I of HR 815 of the 118th Congress make it illegal to collect, broker, lease, trade, or sell US Citizen's personally identifying data to an adversarial nation which is defined in Article 10 as China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea.

You're complaining about the law and you literally have no idea what that law says?

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If the catered ads weren’t so obvious that pretty much most social platforms are stealing your data, not sure what is.

Nothing is free. Especially a ‘free’ account. You are the product at that point.

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Musk's X hurting America is just America hurting itself, deservedly. TikTok hurting America is the CCP hurting America, undeservedly.

You can see how an American Company operating rationally would want to limit negative socioeconomic outcomes, but a Chinese Dictatorship Military operation would want to maximize it?

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Actually, they clearly haven't read anything about Divisions H and I of HR 815 or they would realize that WAS a broad privacy legislation to protect US Citizens.

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ignorance is bliss

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The meme references the US violating privacy.

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It would be easy and rational to attribute misinformation memes like this to ignorance, but to be honest I can't help by imagine it is malice.

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And what does the meme say?

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Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!

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There's definitely some malice in there i don't doubt, which likely bleeds into the unwillingness to prove one's biases wrong

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If only someone gave a shit about the law