The majority of Americans — about 59% — say TikTok a threat to the national security of the United States, according to a recent survey of U.S. adults. The findings from Pew Research Center’s…

About 59% of Americans say TikTok a threat to the national security of the United States, according to a new survey of U.S. adults.

  • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That is not the implication of the ability to make others want things. Also, I clearly stated that the fault lies with both the producer of materials and the consumer.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Advertising does work, yes, but only for products in which demand already exists. No significant amount of people will buy a hand-cutting-off machine no matter how it is advertised.

      The radicalization began decades ago, initially couched in racial resentment, and has spread largely via Americans’ innate dissatisfaction with government, which goes back literally hundreds of years.

      This resentment has certainly been fostered, even engineered, and I would separate those who have directly engineered or manipulated such resentment (e.g. Benghazi trials, trans panic, Critical Race Theory) with those who merely profit from it.

      Two very different groups, imo.