• @Novis@lemdro.id
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    This guy is absolutely a grifter and playing both sides so he ends up with “the winning team”, don’t fucking trust his ass.

  • Deceptichum
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    51 hour ago

    In before he’s on another right wing podcast apologising and saying it’s false.

  • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    163 hours ago

    Gavin Newsom was enthusiastically in favor of forcing the sale of TikTok to US-aligned billionaires under Joe Biden.

    Wonder what changed.

    • @renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net
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      There’s definitely some “our team, their team” going on, but this isn’t really the same thing.

      “Following TikTok’s sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports, and independently confirmed instances, of suppressed content critical of President Trump”

      This is not a criticism of the sale itself, but of reported censorship after the sale. Make no mistake, Newsom is still on the side of the billionaires. He just wants the billionaires to return to their progressive facade.

    • @Kissaki@feddit.org
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      I’m pretty sure under Biden, it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control, not bringing it under US billionaires specifically. Now it’s a political instrument of corruption and control, which is something different.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control

        TikTok was controlled by a private company based out of Singapore, with investments from a host of international funds including both the US and China.

        The “China is controlling our internet” narrative was always bullshit fear-mongering, fully disjoined from the actual business structure. What TikTok enjoyed that Facebook and YouTube and Reddit did not was a sufficient distance from US policymakers such that TikTok’s policies weren’t dictated by Western oligarchs.

        not bringing it under US billionaires specifically

        That’s exactly what Biden (and then Trump)'s forced sale intended. Bring the US branch of TikTok under American control by awarding it to exclusively American financial interests.

      • frank ddamee
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        -31 hour ago

        As a millionaire living my best life, I’m giving $30k to the first 20 people who message me ‘grace.’ I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden.

    • @FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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      Likely the consortium that currently bought TikTok does not agree with his political bias, where the Biden one did.

      Same with Covid shots, Biden and Kamala were essentially saying that they would not or would hesitate to take “Trump’s Covid vaccine.” Then, a month later they won, and then had no problem pushing it onto everyone because it was no longer “Trump’s Vaccine,” buy their own administration’s. I can’t be the only one that remmebers that.

  • @dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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    244 hours ago

    Apple forced an update on iphones that auto-updated TikTok, which now has mandatory reporting of your geolocation (including SIM card and GPS info). This geolocation sharing can’t be turned off in Settings like all other apps. It is greyed out for TikTok.

    You think this is all coincidental?

  • @mjr@infosec.pub
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    Well, why did you think they forced bytedance to sell the US arm to a joint venture controlled by his chums?

  • Tony Bark
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    I’ve seen plenty of tweets reporting that even remotely using the word Epstein is enough to get you flagged.

    • Em Adespoton
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      195 hours ago

      That must be a real headache for anyone who knows someone with the last name Epstein, even before you get to people who have that name themselves.

  • @jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    Are someone’s TikToks not trending anymore? 😆

    There, there little guy. Why don’t you stand up your own blue sky server?

    • frank ddamee
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      -61 hour ago

      As a millionaire living my best life, I’m giving $30k to the first 20 people who message me ‘grace.’ I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden.

  • @IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com
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    Apparently this is global. What’s happening to America is coming soon to your nations. Because the people playing The Game have no loyalty to nations or humanity. To them we are simply tools to be used for their advancement.

    We all know war is coming and it should be genuine humanity vs all, world wide. The surveillance and dystopic technology is already in place. It’s probably already hopeless… We know the goal for america that will then expand to other nations. That is new money, digital currency and or tokenized programs for allowences for food and goods, facial tracking, and digital tracking, everything logged and surveileved by ai as well as ai powered policing. Meaning there is no freedom and it will be illegal and impossible to live outside of this new “matrix”.

    This is the current goal and we know that evil is winning the race to get there. It’s a rush to finish line because the winner will own the globe and all of its people. What’s going on with ice and immigration is just a tool for them to trick the people into allowing these technologies. People are disposable to them and are easily written off. The dystopia is already here.

    For anyone seeking info about tokenization and the digital changes I recommend watching some Whitney Webb talks. But remember don’t get wrapped up in following others ideas as if they are rightious, always think critical and think for yourself.

    Anyway… I saw it once and now I can’t unsee it.

    maxheadroom

  • teft
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    And now because trump et al have been screaming for years that other tech companies have been suppressing right wing content the conservatives will claim turnabout is fair play or some other bullshit.

    Also almost 2 in 3 americans is using that brain rot? We’re fucked.

  • Hegar
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    Let’s just share the news please.

    Gavin Newsom’s presidential campaign paying to insert his name in headlines should not be shared.

  • EbbyA
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    No shit Sherlock. Were solid into this as normal now.

    Remember when democrat related keywords were filtered January 2025? Yeah, “oopsies” said Meta.

    You have any legal teeth of that accusation, Newsome? Otherwise it’s in the ignore bin with all the other grievances.

    • SeeMarkFly
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      it’s in the ignore bin with all the other grievances

      2026 has been a long year.

      Tired of the lies yet?

  • @BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
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    And I’m going to bring the NEW OWNERS of the App on my Podcast to DEFEND this Situation with ZERO Pushback!

    -ALSO Gavin Newsom!

    • @FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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      Okay, I get it that many people are not happy with the current administration but to claim what you just claim tells me that you know nothing of China’s actual political structure and how it relates to its citizens. The USA as a whole, is still wah better than. The CCP.

      Like the West recent 1984’s policy pushes both in the USA, and Canada, and Australia, Germany, And the IK are literally just coping the current CCP playbook.