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[โ€“] macattack -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I think the issue is that TiKtok is just as bad as all the other social media and they are owned by a foreign adversary.

Foreign adversaries (ie China, Russia and America) use social media for influence campaigns on each other and therefore their social media platforms can't be trusted. This is why Chinese people similarly can't use Google or Facebook

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Good job, this is exactly the understanding and framing that the Council on Foreign Relations wants you to have ๐Ÿ’ฏ

[โ€“] Funkytom467 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm out of the loop what's the council for and why would they want people to think that? What's in it for them?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These are very good questions. What is the Council on Foreign Relations and what are its goals & motivations?

These are questions on the path toward developing real media literacy.

[โ€“] Funkytom467 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe I should say I'm not in the US. Media literacy isn't brand new to me. But the CFR was completely foreign (pun intended), there isn't quite anything like it where I live.

Although the propaganda model of Herman and Chromsky quoted in your link is very much a mirror of our media too. (Most notably in our television network, own by a single group)

If I understood properly that was the point of your sarcastic comment on the CFR right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yes, the CFR is a major coordination org between the Atlanticist corporations, governments, and NGOs, with the US leading, as it does.

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