TikTok is down in the US

[u/Late_Champion529]

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/18/24346961/tiktok-shut-down-banned-in-the-us

[u/tisofold]

This is the current prompt displayed when you try to open the app. Grim times.

[u/elfsbladeii_6 → u/tisofold]

one of the worst own goals ever.

Tiktok is leans young Democrat, Gen Z, Millenial

After Musk takeover of twitter, Dems need a stronghold on social media

Let Trump own the Tiktok ban that HE originally wanted in 2020.

Instead, Trump gets all the credit for "saving Tiktok" forever

[u/Yeangster → u/elfsbladeii_6]

There’s plenty of evidence that political tiktok leans right.

[u/sleepyrivertroll → u/Yeangster]

Their algorithm is so good at grouping people that it's really any extreme. It's a giant politicizing machine that amplifies everything from Trad wives to Marxists.

[u/EnchantedOtter01 → u/Yeangster]

Where?

[u/HiddenHomefry → u/Yeangster]

I'd be curious to see this evidence, because in 2024 pew noted that users were nearly 4 times as likely to see "mostly liberal" political content as compared to "mostly conservative." And they separately found that the liberal user base is 20 percent larger than the conservative user base.