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Fun fact: these days, Tiktok is the main social media outlet for uncensored pro-Palestine activism, owing to the fact that Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube tend to censor most criticism of the Israeli apartheid government.
THAT'S why they're suddenly pretending that its spying on users is any worse than that of the others (it's not) now of all times: AIPAC and other major donors are feeling the heat and want to shut people up.
That and because it's an election year and the combination of xenophobia and pretending to care about online privacy appeals to a wide selection of gullible prospective voters.
It's not for "uncensored pro-Palestine activism", it's a primary vector for distributing blatant propaganda and misinformation. China is one of the big three who are aggressively pushing a pro-Hamas narrative on social media:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html
In case of paywall:
https://web.archive.org/web/20231103162338/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html
the NYT is a pro-Israel newspaper. See their recently leaked guidelines on covering Israel.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/a-secret-internal-nytimes-memo-reveals-the-papers-anti-palestinian-bias-is-even-worse-than-we-thought/#:~:text=Arguably%20the%20worst%20example%20of,to%20being%20stunned%20by%20this.
They can be pro or against Israel, but this article, which you likely didn't even read, is entirely factual.
Their news is biased, I do not trust the NYT on Israel as you seem to blindly do. This is like linking a Fox News article on trans people.
Show me a single sentence in this article that is wrong or misleading.
Fuck off asshole. Fuck your shitty NYT article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War
the arabs did not want an israeli state, they fucked up i suppose.
And Facebook and Twitter aren't? 🙄
And nope, not taking the NYT's word on anything related to the ongoing genocide in Gaza before they retract their thoroughly baseless "Screams without voices" propaganda piece.