politics

Wild analysis from David Shor

> 2) TikTok appears to make its users more Republican.

> 3) Trump probably narrowly won younger voters. The gender gap among 18 year olds is also the highest ever observed. Trump won *nonwhite* 18-year-old men.

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>tiktok is china owned
>tiktok makes young ppl vote trump
>trump is the china candidate? 👀 
>?????
>taiwan goes to china

now you’re starting to see the signs:
what else would a powerful bad actor do in an online environment that was heavy-handedly “left” thanks to years of the American PMCs manipulative campaigns

drive a wedge into the culture war with TikTok, and just like Musk, dial the algorithm to the right:  create deep polarization -> civil war 

Divide and conquer, oldest trick in the book that midwits will never be able to counter