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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes but Facebook / Instagram / Twitter also do this and it has caused huge societal problems in the US, arguably much worse than TikTok.

[โ€“] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They do, and I'd love to see these laws expanded to include a ban against all algorithm manipulation. Manipulation coming from external sources is much more dangerous, even if local source manipulation is also dangerous.