• BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Encouraging people to contact their representatives and demand action? Congress clearly can’t have this. How will they do their jobs if they are constantly forced to engage with their constituents?

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      8 months ago

      Call to action from, say, activist groups is very different from call to action from a billion-dollar company. This does make me really worried about how much influencer TikTok has on people ngl

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        8 months ago

        Ah yes let’s only allow political activism from the people who already has the power and influence rather than the common man

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      8 months ago

      In my opinion, considering Tiktok’s algo they had the best circumstance to notify a mix of their users more aligned with the actual electorate. The fact they ended up with the worst representation of their user base when it came to confirming the suspicions of politicians says everything.