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OC375

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1. That's the point of most social media

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Jan 23, 2026, 05:43 PM

22 hrs ago

TikTok has nothing to do with giving you a voice, protecting free speech or exploring creativity. It’s a data scraper to feed algorithms that figure out how to get you to click on things that make money for or give power to their owners.

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TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes [View all] highplainsdem 22 hrs ago OP

That's the point of most social media OC375 22 hrs ago #1

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Leave Tiktoc creon 22 hrs ago #3