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This is the red herring that the CCP is throwing out all over social media for us. They want to conflate support for Palestine with TikTok use, and shift the narrative away from the problems with TikTok's doomerism-inducing algorithms of intentionally addictive and divisive content.
Except it's not just the CCP, there's a leaked audio of pro-Israel lobbyist and CEO of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, saying “We really have a TikTok problem” in the US.
And others stand to gain from the TikTok ban, like Meta and YouTube. So maybe the CCP is pushing a narrative, but there's more than one angle here
From famous CCP propaganda outlet, the Wall Street Journal:
Yeah definitely not a campaign that the ADL has been heavily pushing for lately to maintain control over their propaganda narratives.
Why do people deny this? I think it is maybe somewhat difficult to see through the smokescreen but the timing of all this is what makes it so obvious. I am not a tiktok user but I've seen the pro-palestine content that is so prevalent there and just the sheer volume of it. The US was more or less fine with China harvesting our data for years before this, but suddenly now we have to ban it in 6 months?? It is entirely about Israel and anti-Israeli government sentiment.