House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel

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House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel
nytimes.com

A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.

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It's not for "uncensored pro-Palestine activism", it's a primary vector for distributing blatant propaganda and misinformation. China is one of the big three who are aggressively pushing a pro-Hamas narrative on social media:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html

In case of paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231103162338/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html

They can be pro or against Israel, but this article, which you likely didn't even read, is entirely factual.

Their news is biased, I do not trust the NYT on Israel as you seem to blindly do. This is like linking a Fox News article on trans people.

it's a primary vector for distributing blatant propaganda and misinformation.

And Facebook and Twitter aren't? 🙄

And nope, not taking the NYT's word on anything related to the ongoing genocide in Gaza before they retract their thoroughly baseless "Screams without voices" propaganda piece.