The (true) reason Republicans are banning TikTok while ignoring Facebook and Twitter

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The (true) reason Republicans are banning TikTok while ignoring Facebook and Twitter
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There's a reason Republicans are calling for a ban on TikTok, but letting Facebook and Twitter fly free. (via TheReidOut Blog)

, Meta officials even hired GOP strategists to malign TikTok, with claims that the platform is a threat to America — language mirroring the Republican governors’.

But fundamentally, Republicans haven’t been able to wield the same influence over TikTok as they have with Facebook and Twitter. This isn’t to say the platform is exclusively liberal: There are plenty of right-wing trolls on TikTok, too. But Republicans haven’t been able to place their thumbs on the moderation scale as they’d like.says plainly hereIn fact, TikTok has been used in recent years to wage some of the most effective public demonstrations against right-wing figures.

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