• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Here’s US Senator Pete Ricketts saying that we need to ban TikTok because pro-Palestine videos “have more reach than the top 10 US news websites combined”

    The reason it’s succeeded now is because of Gaza. Crediting the election makes no sense, how does this help anyone’s election chances?

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      2 months ago

      how does this help anyone’s election chances

      It doesn’t help. It hurts Biden among younger voters. Because he gets the blame for this.

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          2 months ago

          So why are Democrats doing this?

          For all the other reasons already listed?

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            2 months ago

            But only for those other reasons and definitely not because of TikTok being a hotbed of pro-Palestine/anti-Isrsel media content. Can’t be that, right? It’s just a coincidence. 🙄