One of the defining phenomena of the present times reshaping the world, as we know it, is the worldwide accessibility to the net. This phenomenon has not only yielded explosive growth in social media and digital technology awareness but has also created a wide variety of new tactics for potentially easy manipulation and diversion for political gain. However, Big Tech’s monopolization over digitized activity does add an interesting dimension to our present-day socio-political scenarios globally – especially in America!
In Canada, the Globe and Mail reported on JUNE 21, 2020 that TikTok, and devotees of Korean popular music, the once swelling participation at a not exactly full field at U.S. President Donald Trump’s first political meet in quite a while held in Tulsa, Oklahoma was checked when Trump’s team later denied TikTokkers had anything to do with the lackluster turnout for the rally. They did speak to the possibility that, in 2022, TikTok may hold the key to a more comprehensive understanding of Generation Z, compared to Google.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/12/google-ai-gemini-2024-election
J. Clement, September 4, 2019, One of the defining phenomena of the present times reshaping the world as we know it, is the worldwide accessibility to the internet. The lovechild of the World Wide Web is social media, which comes in many forms, including blogs, forums, business networks, photo-sharing platforms, social gaming, microblogs, chat apps, and last but not least social networks. In 2019, the global social penetration rate reached 45 percent, with East Asia and North America both having the highest penetration rate at 70 percent, followed by Northern Europe at 67 percent.
www.statista.com/topics/1164/social-networks/
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Could you call Web 1.0 the grassroots of the Internet?
The real threat to western democracy isn’t Russia, Facebook or Cambridge Analytica. It’s us. Because so-called “cyber meddling” only works if a nation’s population has zero media literacy skills. No one is “hijacking” our democracy. We’d already abandoned it.
— dave meslin (@meslin) February 12, 2019
The initial release of TikTok was in September 2016. By 2020, TikTok had been downloaded more than 130 million times in the United States, and 2 billion times worldwide —en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok
TikTok outperformed Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram to become the world’s most downloaded iOS application. “The biggest trend in Chinese social media is dying, and another has already taken its place,” CNBC said –Tuesday, September 18, 2018
The Internet in China was altered, and there is an evident issue of whether determined weights are adding to control at TikTok. At the point when the Cambridge Analytica embarrassment started to require that web-based media be inspected and maintained, it made sense that TikTok could by and by be under a similar kind of increasingly unavoidable restriction. Even so, today the U.S. Senate is asking if they should be mad at it.
I am really still kind of a proud creator on Facebook and respect the firm.
Regardless, it is discussed what Elon Musk has presented about his own Twitter‘s suppression of information in 2020, it seems that Twitter is far from blameless. Big Tech is always treated with suspicion. Musk’s attitude seems to be that Facebook is them and X is us, but they do seem to compete over who is richest.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/eff-urges-appeals-court-re-hear-case-over-trumps-x-account
TikTok is home to countless videos, so it isn’t shocking that the government in Canada and in the U.S. has unrooted what you might say are ostensibly difficult censorship issues.
If 2030 sees social media dead and buried, that’s some of the best opportunities and liberties on the Internet fallen by the wayside.
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