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pnwmom

(109,020 posts) Mon Mar 11, 2024, 11:11 AM Mar 11

Trump says a TikTok ban would empower Meta, slams Facebook as 'enemy of the people'

Source: CNBC

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday raised concerns about efforts to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok in the U.S., saying it would only serve to empower Meta
’s Facebook platform.

“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 an interview Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

Acknowledging his concerns around national security and data privacy over TikTok, Trump said, “there’s a lot of good and there’s a lot of bad” with the platform.

“There are a lot of people on TikTok that love it. There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it,” Trump said.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/11/trump-says-a-tiktok-ban-would-empower-meta-slams-facebook-as-enemy-of-the-people.html

Hah! Too many progressives on FB, spreading their filth.

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Trump says a TikTok ban would empower Meta, slams Facebook as 'enemy of the people' (Original Post) pnwmom Mar 11 OP

Wouldn't want to see it banned. Igel Mar 11 #1

He's not entirely wrong, but not for the reasons he thinks. TwilightZone Mar 11 #2

Maybe he'll convince some gqp not to vote for it. This app far surpasses meta and twitter. Yes, a of youth PortTack Mar 11 #3

So Trump supporters are supposed to hate Facebook now? Pinback Mar 11 #4

Please! An I.T. Person from the Trump Campaign said: Botany Mar 11 #5

Missing the part where a billionaire with financial investment in TikTok visited Trump Midnight Writer Mar 11 #6

Trump is going to run out of people and companies PatSeg Mar 11 #7

Oh my. twodogsbarking Mar 11 #8

Didn't someone in Germany back in the 1930's brand a number of newspapers as enemies of the people? cstanleytech Mar 11 #9

Uh! Oh! There goes any chance of any Repug voting to ban Tik Tok! They'll ban META instead. Wonder Why Mar 11 #10

Now all the conservatives who wanted to ban the "ChiCom" TikTok will reverse themselves Prairie Gates Mar 11 #11

Igel

(35,382 posts)

1. Wouldn't want to see it banned.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 11:14 AM

Mar 11

Would want to see it non-PRC owned.

I'd mention that a lot of kids seem to go crazy with TikTok. Plus it's an incredible waste of time.

TwilightZone

(25,505 posts)

2. He's not entirely wrong, but not for the reasons he thinks.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 11:16 AM

Mar 11

Facebook and other social media and their lackluster (and, often, nonexistent) record on combating misinformation contributed to the normalization of Trump, fake news, and a post-truth society.

Traditional media often gets the blame, but social media supercharged it.

And there's the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which assisted Trump and Cruz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal

PortTack

(32,813 posts)

3. Maybe he'll convince some gqp not to vote for it. This app far surpasses meta and twitter. Yes, a of youth

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 11:18 AM

Mar 11

There, But others as well. If banned it’s going to make a lot of ppl very unhappy with President Biden

Pinback

(12,171 posts)

4. So Trump supporters are supposed to hate Facebook now?

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 12:21 PM

Mar 11

How ever will they communicate with their grandchildren?

Botany

(70,618 posts)

5. Please! An I.T. Person from the Trump Campaign said:

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 12:34 PM

Mar 11

“If it wasn’t for Facebook we would have never won.” The Russians, the Trump Campaign, Cambridge
Analytica, the FBI,and the right wing used the weaponized misinformation big time in 2016 especially pushing the phony stories about HRC and her emails.

Midnight Writer

(21,819 posts)

6. Missing the part where a billionaire with financial investment in TikTok visited Trump

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 12:40 PM

Mar 11

just before Trump embraced this "Gina" based business.

PatSeg

(47,678 posts)

7. Trump is going to run out of people and companies

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 12:46 PM

Mar 11

to attack. That is his whole schtick, attack something or someone. Such a miserable person.

That said, it cracks me up that articles have to identify who Donald Trump is - "Presumptive Republican presidential nominee" or "formerly U.S. president between 2017 and 2021". Is there anyone on the planet who doesn't know who Trump is? That's a lot of unnecessary filler words.

twodogsbarking

(9,853 posts)

8. Oh my.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 12:53 PM

Mar 11

Mr. Trump tried to ban TikTok while in office, pushing its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform to a new owner or face being blocked from American app stores. A House committee advanced legislation last week that would similarly force TikTok to cut ties with ByteDance.

cstanleytech

(26,340 posts)

9. Didn't someone in Germany back in the 1930's brand a number of newspapers as enemies of the people?

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 01:02 PM

Mar 11

Wonder Why

(3,290 posts)

10. Uh! Oh! There goes any chance of any Repug voting to ban Tik Tok! They'll ban META instead.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 02:24 PM

Mar 11

Prairie Gates

(1,078 posts)

11. Now all the conservatives who wanted to ban the "ChiCom" TikTok will reverse themselves

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 02:32 PM

Mar 11

Like orthodox Stalinists who one day hated Hitler, then a day after the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact all found a reason to praise Hitler's acumen.

Fucking clowns.

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