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[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago

Tiktok has denied that rumor

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78w9zz62ego

TikTok has called a report that China is considering allowing a sale of the social media company's US operations to...

Oh look, it's bullshit

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Christ. This guy just can't help himself.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

There's already a mass exodus to RedNote, and I gotta say, I love that there are no ads.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

That will get banned too if the bill goes into effect.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

No ads yet...

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Another Chinese app

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Musk lost a lot of money on his last social media company purchase, Twitter, after spending some time in court trying to abort the purchase. I'm not at all sure that he wants to buy another social media company.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was and never will be about how much it cost or lost.

It was always about the dismantling of lefty spaces, the control of speech, and a pulpit to announce his decrees as a disciple of baphomet and kek.

170 million Americans and all their data suddenly under his authority would be worth more than you could imagine. That worth would not be in any currency.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

It was always about the dismantling of lefty spaces,

Hmm these "allies" appear to be unreliable, I wonder why

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

He got so much more out of Twitter than we could have imagined, he lit the USA on fire with it, that's worth much more than the couple of billion lost. I think TikTok is even more powerful than Twitter.

It's a match made in heaven, win, win, win for every autocrat involved.

[–] Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Twitter ended up inadvertently turning to his favor though. It has turned into even more of a hotbed for unchecked, uneducated and loud morons from alt-right/qanon/incel/republicans.

He gets TikTok though, it'll just be another platform to blast full volume even more.

The guy is stupid rich, he could theoretically buy Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp and Reddit if he wanted to. He's just not choosing to at this time.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The guy is stupid rich, he could theoretically buy Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp

Poor understanding of US oligarchy detected

[–] Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Poorer understanding of money and value was detected.

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Like this guy needs more companies.

[–] faeempress@groups.ymirc.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Let's that sink in