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Drew Harwell Dec 20, 2022

New: TikTok has spent $1.5 billion on Project Texas, its plan for a major reorganization promising to block Chinese-government interference and open its algorithms to independent review. But the U.S. government, which needs to approve it, hasn't responded since August, and with every week new state bans are multiplying

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/20/tiktok-ban-spending-bill-china/

Sweeping spending bill would ban TikTok on government devices

The prohibition is the latest step by governments, mostly at the state level, to try to curb TikTok’s reach.

The Washington Post

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EamonnMR

@drewharwell TikTok scares me not because of who controls it but it's apparent potential for spreading particularly sticky memes, even to the point of people picking up ticks. It's the same as any social media for social contagions on some level, but it seems to be just plain better at it because of it's ability to micro-target. Endless Thread did a decent story on it recently, but it's a podcast unfortunately.