If members of Congress followed their own logic about data collection and the harms of social media, then all social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, would also be banned.
, if members of Congress followed their own logic about data collection and the harms of social media, then all social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, would also be banned. After all, TikTok is far from the only social media platform collecting and selling data — it’s not even the only social media networkCommentators have noted that banning TikTok, meanwhile, would be a huge boon for American Big Tech companies.
The writers pointed out that Facebook and Instagram, which are owned by Meta, “have been manipulated by foreign adversaries, make teens feel awful about themselves, allow their users to be targeted by anyone willing to pay, and have been proven to be used by white supremacists, genocidal regimes, etc.”is widely read among people with lower incomes and among young people who are mired in debt. Our site is read at public libraries, among people without internet access of their own.
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