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    10 hours ago

    The US government isn’t in charge of one of the largest social media platforms in the world. US corporations are absolutely doing this as well, but that’s an argument for more regulation not to grant China free reign

    US-run social media apps are pretty much now just arms of the US surveillance state, functioning both as pro-US propaganda machines, and tools to spy on the communications of the entire world.

    For example, the most popular social media app in India for example, is facebook. The US controls the main method of news and communication for a country much larger than its own.

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        5 minutes ago

        He didn’t say the government owned Facebook. Even so, it doesn’t need to own it to control the flow of information.