Back to episode — Episode 1690 Scott Adams - Ukraine Peace Deal Idea, Proof We're In a Simulation, TikTok Manipulation
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time, if you look at it over its entire significance, can be something that starts as insignificant and becomes significant over time because the passage of time creates the significance." So that, ladies and gentlemen, I just saw a meme that made me laugh and hate myself at the same time. Have you ever laughed at a meme and said, "I hate myself for laughing at that. I'm not a good person." But o…
← Previous segment →then when you take a break from what you've matched, they're all somewhat automatically and subconsciously will match you. So it's basic known persuasion technique.
Here's what the TikTok algorithm does. The others do not. The Instagram algorithm, for example, wants to show you things that Instagram wants to show you. Am I right? So it's going to show you more famous people and celebrities and high-quality stuff. Whereas the TikTok algorithm, we're told, simply gives you more of what you've shown you like. So if you click on a certain thing, it's going to give you an endless stream of that until you try something else.
So what happens if you have an app that just keeps giving you everything you want, like really specifically everything you want? Do you know what happens? Well, first of all, you get addicted to it because it's giving you everything you want. It's like it's reading your mind practically. The second thing that happens is if they decide to lead, you will have been so paced that anything you see on TikTok is going to look real to you, especially if you're 12 years old.
So TikTok is the ultimate brainwashing machine. And I believe the only reason it's legal is because there's not a general understanding of how powerful it is. If people understood how much influence TikTok could have. Now I don't know if it's been weaponized, so I don't know if it's ever been used to specifically create something. I know there are some Chinese stories like Tiananmen Square that have been banned on TikTok or suppressed, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about just hiding things. I'm talking about making somebody think a new thing that they didn't think before. And TikTok is just ideally suited for that.
Now if you didn't know, TikTok is owned
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by a Chinese company, which means that the Chinese government can get any of their data just by telling them to give it to them. And they could tell TikTok to run any content they wanted and just feed it to people as something that they would consume just like all the other stuff they were consuming. So TikTok really should be banned. Apparently there's some effort to get the American customer dat…
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