• dhork@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people,” Trump, who was formerly U.S. president between 2017 and 2021, said in a CNBC TV interview on Monday.

    I am disappointed that they go through the whole article, and never point out that Trump runs his own social media platform, and that might give him a conflict of interest when speaking about Social Media companies. Is Facebook really an enemy of the people, or is it just a competitor of Truth Social?

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      6 months ago

      Facebook. Who basically won his last election with disinformation campaigns… Why would anyone ally themselves with Trump, you will never, ever get his loyalty.

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      am disappointed that they go through the whole article, and never point out that Trump runs his own social media platform, and that might give him a conflict of interest when speaking about Social Media companies

      Agreed.

      Moreover, any corporate run, non open-source, centralized social media platform is an enemy of the people.

      This includes TikTok, Twitter, all of Meta, Truth Social, Reddit, Next-door, and so on.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah Trump is technically correct here, but didn’t arrive at his correctness by means of truth. Rather, he arrived by means of self serving agenda as always.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      6 months ago

      It should also be stated that the site originally was running Mastodon with a new skin to try and hide it. They have since acknowledged it and posted the source code required on the Legal page apparently (according to Wikipedia).

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      Is Facebook really an enemy of the people, or is it just a competitor of Truth Social?

      Yes.