“Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people,” Trump, who was formerly U.S. president between 2017 and 2021, said in a CNBC TV interview on Monday.
I am disappointed that they go through the whole article, and never point out that Trump runs his own social media platform, and that might give him a conflict of interest when speaking about Social Media companies. Is Facebook really an enemy of the people, or is it just a competitor of Truth Social?
am disappointed that they go through the whole article, and never point out that Trump runs his own social media platform, and that might give him a conflict of interest when speaking about Social Media companies
Agreed.
Moreover, any corporate run, non open-source, centralized social media platform is an enemy of the people.
This includes TikTok, Twitter, all of Meta, Truth Social, Reddit, Next-door, and so on.
Yeah Trump is technically correct here, but didn’t arrive at his correctness by means of truth. Rather, he arrived by means of self serving agenda as always.
Facebook is garbage and so are all the other privatized, data harvesting, privacy violating social media platforms.
Is Facebook really an enemy of the people, or is it just a competitor of Truth Social?
Yes.
Facebook. Who basically won his last election with disinformation campaigns… Why would anyone ally themselves with Trump, you will never, ever get his loyalty.
It should also be stated that the site originally was running Mastodon with a new skin to try and hide it. They have since acknowledged it and posted the source code required on the Legal page apparently (according to Wikipedia).
Facebook is what got him elected. What a strange position.
Facebook before they tried to start putting some loose guardrails around disinformation and started removing bad actors or putting them on time out.
James Comey and the fbi got him elected… how did that play out?
Everything he doesn’t like is “enemy of the people”.
Exercising? Enemy of the people.
Common decency? Enemy of the people.
Defending the Constitution? Believe it or not, enemy of the people.
If TikTok is a threat because it steals American’s data, so is Facebook. We could solve both problems with comprehensive data privacy laws that cover foreign and domestic data harvesters.
But who am I kidding, our government doesn’t care about our privacy, they’re just scared of China, and even if they did they can’t work together to get a decent privacy bill.
Pretty funny given how much help Trump/MAGA has gotten from Meta’s ragebait algos. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you
TikTok’s been pushing Donnie’s videos.
Even a broken (smashed to bits and run through a shredder) clock is right twice a day, it seems.
However, transparent translation: man with financial stake in a social media company considers competing social media company to be “enemy”; more at 11.
“Asbestos manufacturer lashes out at cigarette industry for causing cancer”
Don’t make me start liking Facebook, Donnie. You Just shut your fat mouth!
Jeez he’s so fucking slimy in all these pictures. Like -unctuous.
Whatever, rural areas. Do your . . thing, I guess.
Trump or robotboy?
trump specifically, but yeah mecha-nero has a film going as well. But with the orange rapist it’s practically dripping
Tik Tok Flip Flop
The Trump administration fighting against tiktok was one of the few things I agreed with when it was a thing. I guess this flip implies it was just a shakedown.
That said, I can’t disagree with this headline either. Though if he’s saying that to say “don’t ban tiktok”, I’d disagree there. IMO there needs to be some careful thought about how social media should be regulated and if it’s something that should even be in corporate hands.
Kinda screws up Congressional Republicans who voted for it out of committee
It’s OK, they will now fall all over themselves to kill it, while blaming Democrats for it existing in the first place.
Trying to pretend they’re not working together
¿Por qué no los dos?
It would definitely empower Facebook, Google/YouTube, and Twitter/X. They are clearly winners in this decision. I don’t use tiktok but I don’t think it should be removed from the app store the same way Huawei was banned in America. With Huawei I can see why ISP’s aren’t allowed to use their products since it’s public infrastructure, but as a consumer you should maybe have the choice to buy their phones. If you want to be dumb enough to let another government organization spy on you, that’s your own fault.
