Comment by iinnPP
13 hours ago
This isn't very compelling. It's 2 anecdotes and a pretty damning final paragraph. Is there any more reliable data?
13 hours ago
This isn't very compelling. It's 2 anecdotes and a pretty damning final paragraph. Is there any more reliable data?
Anecdata is strong, I have multiple cases myself just from browsing this morning.
But I'm leaning towards incompetence. Some US generated stuff was most likely moved to Oracle shitboxes, causing encoding issues and unreliable streaming.
...or it's malice and they're scanning the data and intentionally throttling traffic for unwanted content.
Would the incompetence include deleting messages that used the word "Epstein"?
https://i.redd.it/2stz13v1bsfg1.jpeg
There are quite a few reports on Reddit of users having any dm using that word being deleted.
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1qnxxgi/were_being_...
I believe the headline is missing a “mistakenly”. Very strange article given the headline.
Data? No. None of these companies are making their data freely available for analysis or being transparent about how their algorithms work. People have complained for a while that Twitter / X seems to suppress the visibility and reach of profiles or posts that disagree with Musk’s views. The recent open sourcing of their algorithm is meaningless since there’s no evidence of what they actually have in production or what data / configuration is used with it.
So the best we can do is anecdotal examples. And it’s also obvious that Trump avoided banning TikTok for months, illegally, because he wanted to have another platform serve as a mouthpiece. He now has that by forcing a sale of TikTok to his friend, Larry Ellison.
The fact that social media companies aren't mandated by law to provide transparency into reach / visibility is a travesty.
It should be fucking table stakes for being able to run a business with that much power and influence.
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