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The big one is finally coming! Trump's team "Make America Greatest Again Inc" announced that it will officially enter TikTok, the international version of Douyin. [Dog's Head]
As the previous president of the United States, Trump seriously expressed his opposition to TikTok when he was in office, but now, at the height of this election, Trump has changed his attitude and said that he will join the country. It represents a new round of election games, which will start around TikTok.
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Why is Trump coming in
In fact, Trump, including his team, is quite keen in the direction of public opinion. When the Biden administration announced that it was going to ban TikTok, Trump and his team had a hunch that this could be an important opportunity for themselves.
Many people may not have a specific understanding of this overseas version of Douyin, and they don't know much about what kind of situation it is in the United States. So let's start with the information on the data to understand what the international version of Douyin is currently in in the United States.
According to Google Play, the largest app provider in the U.S. and the app store used by all Android-based phones, this data has exceeded 1.5 billion downloads. And this data is also more than 1.5 billion times in Apple's app store.
Among them, there are 170 million stable users in the United States. You must know that there are only 330 million women and children in the United States. Except for these completely old people and babies and children who are not yet able to use their mobile phones normally. It's almost like everyone in the United States is using TikTok.
If you go out on the street, maybe 1 in 10,000 people don't use TikTok. It can be said that the status of this international version of Douyin in the United States is the same as that of Douyin in the mainland. They are all top products in the industry, and they are the kind that dominates the others.
And with such a huge coverage, the United States will ban it when it says it will be blocked, and so many American users must be extremely unwilling. Not to mention that because of the existence of TikTok, many unemployed homeless people in the United States have the opportunity to re-employ, and even many people choose to be Internet celebrities on TikTok.
And the ban on TikTok means that the dinner of these Internet celebrities was directly smashed by the US government. Moreover, this kind of coercive behavior of not allowing one's own people to use it is obviously in conflict with the founding foundation of the United States. Do you shout freely? Why is it that even the American people are not given the freedom to choose what software they want to use?
Therefore, not only did a large number of people oppose this move of the Biden administration, but some people even organized demonstrations on the streets. And the people of the United States are not completely without checks and balances for the government, and if the people are not satisfied, then the votes in their hands will let you know in the next re-election that the people of the United States are not easy to mess with.
So in order to oppose the Biden administration's ban on TikTok, a large number of young Americans, who are the main users of TikTok, have said that if the Biden administration really cancels TikTok in the United States. Then stop counting on the votes in their hands.
And it is impossible for Trump and his team not to pay attention to this phenomenon, so entering TikTok during this period is obviously to successfully wash a wave of young people's votes. And I have to say that Trump is really not comparable to Dengzi in terms of being an Internet celebrity, and in the area of Little Red Riding Hood, as soon as the speech is made, there must be a large number of MAGA legions to build momentum for Trump.
And for this kind of genius who controls traffic, Trump just doesn't do anything, just sit there, put on an American national anthem, and then connect with Dengzi PK, and the traffic has to rise in an uproar. When the time comes, with the support of young people, even if Dengzi makes another bunch of dead votes, he will not be able to catch up.
And the Biden administration is unlikely to be unaware of the consequences of doing so, but it did it anyway. So what kind of impact does TikTok have in the United States, and is the real reason for the ban on TikTok in the United States to the point that even if you lose your votes, you must ban it?
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What is the United States afraid of
In fact, since the first announcement of a ban on tiktok in the United States, the Israeli organization The Federation of Jews of North America (JFNA) said that they were behind this matter. For this kind of self-reported behavior, it is obvious that at least Israel has extreme dissatisfaction with TikTok.
The vast majority of Chinese who have experienced the baptism of licking the United States know very well that public opinion is the most powerful weapon in the world. And even the election competition in the United States is nothing more than to tell a good story. Let the people of the United States feel that the United States is putting on a good show and ushering in great changes, and the person who is competing for the presidency is the one who can lead the people to the happy ending of this story.
As one of the advanced players in the war of public opinion, the United States is naturally well aware of the importance of public opinion. In the past, as long as someone posted information that was not friendly to the United States, such information would immediately disappear from the Internet. And the government will also act quickly to bring things back into their control.
And in this world, there is actually the concept of justice and evil, right and wrong. The most direct manifestation is that if I want to do something, that thing must have its righteousness. For example, the U.S. propaganda about the Korean War was to help the South Korean people. Fighting Afghanistan is also for the sake of the situation in the Middle East. It is also for the sake of bringing peace and stability to the local area, so their actions are just.
And it is precisely because the decisions made by the government are controversial that people who do not know the truth can believe that their country may really be doing good. However, it is not that no one in the United States is unaware of this, but everyone scolds and scolds, but the media's right to speak is firmly controlled by the government. You say that even if it's true, no one else can see it. Or if you see it, no one will believe you.
The previous government could control speech, add a troll with commentary, and pay a bunch of public figures to endorse them, and there was nothing in the world that they could not cover up. But tiotok is different, and the power of TikTok lies in its algorithm.
It can maintain an information cocoon by analyzing the content you like, and then pushing you the content you like to watch, and the Israeli organization is very worried about anti-Semitic sentiment on tiokto.
Especially after the outbreak of the war with Gaza, many people have begun to pay attention to this matter. According to the past situation, as long as the United States says in the media that Israel is just, and then finds a bunch of trolls to stand up for them, the American people will believe that Israel is the one who is being bullied.
But on TikTok, if you want to understand this incident, he will give you the causes and consequences of why the war broke out between the two sides, and then you will understand that Israel has robbed other people's territory, and it is not natural for that person to beat you. After all, it is true that as long as the Israeli side has normal values, it is difficult for them to agree with their behavior.
And the more you agree, the more TikTok will tweet you relevant content, which is the most worrying situation in Israel, anti-Semitic sentiment is on the rise. Even if they know that their actions are unlikely to win the sympathy of the world, the United States has helped them propagate in the past, and supporting Jews has become the default political correctness of the United States.
And because of algorithms, the original media industry in the United States has been disconnected from the latest forms of productivity. After all, during the Industrial Revolution, the kerosene lamp association was the first to strongly resist the electric light product. As the overlords of the last industrial era, they absolutely do not want the products of the new era to replace the old ones.
So the blow to Tikyok has already threatened the strongest weapon of the United States, public opinion. Therefore, TikTok is also an existence that must be eliminated in the United States. Even if Trump wins this election, it is very likely that after taking office, a new round of sanctions will be imposed on TikTok.
Information sources:
[1] Phoenix.com - 2024.05.09 - [Foreign media: Trump's political action committee enters TikTok to win the support of young voters]
[2] Phoenix.com Technology- 2024.03.14 - [Foreign media: The force behind the US ban on TikTok is Jewish groups]
[3] Huanqiu.com- 2024.05.09 - [TikTok and its parent company sue the U.S. government, U.S. media: TikTok is fighting for survival in the U.S.]