Geopolitics

Is TikTok pushing Taiwan’s young people closer to China? 

Yes. 

The portion of young Taiwanese who feel ‘Taiwanese’ versus ‘Chinese’ is collapsing

@kenny 

Free speech isn’t free speech when the platform is twisting the algorithm

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Is TikTok pushing Taiwan’s young people closer to China? 

Yes. 

The portion of young Taiwanese who feel ‘Taiwanese’ versus ‘Chinese’ is collapsing

@kenny 

Free speech isn’t free speech when the platform is twisting the algorithm 

https://on.ft.com/4gUcjZW 

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taking a highly complex and hard to measure thing like whether or not young people "feel" Taiwanese or Chinese and boiling it down to only being driven by one social media company's algorithm seems a bit too simplistic, no?

seems similar to when people blamed the entire first Trump presidency on social media pushing Russian disinfo and ignoring that actually there were just a lot of real people that liked his message 

social media is an easy scapegoat

if it's that easy to sway people with an algo just create your own social media with a pro Taiwan algo?

yeah I definitely agree with you that social media can sway people, however I think calling it "misinformation" is a bit extreme because we're talking about arbitrary lines on a map, countries are memes

there are historic and cultural arguments you can make that Taiwan is part of China just like there are historic and cultural arguments you can make that Taiwan is independent

blocking people's access to those arguments isn't how you win the game which is why I view banning social media apps as a pointless exercise because you are dealing with broader societal forces

it's an action that makes people feel good but doesn't address the underlying problem

Certainly is only a couple of data points but you can read the article for a broader review

Not expecting to change your mind with one article, but to show how this does happen. I first heard of young people being misinformed on tiktok that Taiwan was part of China about two years ago now 

As for making my own client, when I have billions to spend on user acquisition I will let you know :)