@kim_harding
> a by-product of a media system that fails to hold powerful interests accountable for the lies they tell
This reminds me very much of the heavily skewed coverage of Occupy encampments, and before that the anti-summit protests in the late 1990s. Which led to the creation of the Independent Media Centre and Indymedia.org to coordinate and present coverage of the Battle of Seattle.
"A discussion between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Sen. Mitt Romney over the weekend included... the two officials speaking openly about the U.S. government's long-term attempts to provide public relations work for Israel in defense of its policies in the occupied Palestinian territories—and its push to ban TikTok in order to shut down Americans' access to unfiltered news about the Israeli assault on Gaza."
#JuliaConley, 2024
The suggestion here is that TikTok is doing for US citizens what other platforms are given credit for doing during the Arab Spring; preventing the state from controlling the narrative about popular dissent.
Strypey