Combined Articles on One Subject: Communist China Controlled Social Media Platform TikTok…

ByteDance. Not a new dance taking the world by storm — but the mega-Communist Chinese corporation operating the social media platform TikTok that has too many people addicted, yes, addicted and is controlling them, yes, controlling them via the nonstop propaganda on the platform.

If unfamiliar, which I hope by now no one or very few are, every company operating in Communist China must have a percentage of the business owned by the Communist Chinese government. Which means Communist Chinese intelligence and military personnel are involved.

In case you haven’t heard communism is not good although it’s been and is being embraced in America as if it is the latest greatest ice cream flavor or food sensation people can’t get enough of. Becoming obese, sickly, unhealthy in the mind, in the spirit and soul ingesting the lies they find so delicious and addictive.

I am, and have been my whole life, a vocal and unwavering supporter of America’s First Amendment and the right to free speech. As with almost everything in the dark times we all inhabit language and definitions get twisted, perverted, and molded to fit a person’s argument even when the argument put forward began and is founded on utter rubbish.

It appears convenient for many today to want to ban free speech, censor people, and even do away with the First Amendment while also imposing fines, incarcerations, and job dismissals if exercising free speech that goes against the prevailing narrative of our time — conversely, this same element in our society demands they can say anything they please, well, they usually scram it with spittle spewed from their serpent-like tongues promoting violence, death, destruction, anarchy, treason and more along those same intents.

As we all know free speech does not enable anyone to yell, “FIRE!” in a crowded theater, or even a sparsely attended theater where an American film is being shown.

There is responsibility, accountability for what we say.

We cannot assemble to pronounce that we want to see certain people removed from the face of the earth via violent means or illegal means and think our actions are good and justified, and there is no responsibility for our actions, we ought not to be held accountable to any consequences.

Such as beating someone with an opposing view to the point of death. Or putting them in the hospital. Or even stating you want certain people dead.

Many say, by their actions as well as their words, that we live in an age where anything and everything is permitted and many in positions of authority and temporary power nothing is unacceptable for we have free speech.

Until someone this lot comes along and disagrees. Then those that desire and demand free speech for themselves and proclaim anything is permitted — demand and refuse to allow speech they disagree with or goes against their propaganda.

TikTok is positioned to be the top propaganda platform in the world.

Legions of young people devoted disciples. Not just users of the platform. Disciples. Beyond being mere users or promoters. No, many today are addicted to TikTok and that is the place they receive any and all things that enter their eyes, ears, and minds. And sit in their dead hearts.

The Communist Chinese government and ByteDance — working directly for Communist China’s government while reaping billions in profits — own and operate ByteDamce [TikTok].

TikTok is the fastest-growing social media platform and it is used by more people age 34, 35 and under than any other platform. It’s where more and more people are getting their news.

But Communist China and a Communist Chinese mega-corporation would never do anything to skew, manipulate, manufacture, or control the narrative, right?

Appearing benign to most, ignored by parents as their addicted offspring seemingly can’t live a moment without their glowing mobile in hand displaying what is offered as indoctrinating propaganda at its highest and most subtle form. TikTok has stepped over the imagined and assumed line. With no real repercussions.

Communist China, having gained tremendous ground in their war with America, and make no mistake they have been at war with America, do not be deceived — real wars are not only fought or begun with troop movement, bombs exploding, and bullets flying — realizing there is now a wee bit, not much really, but a wee bit of pushback against their slick, modern propaganda [misinformation that once seen, heard, or read is seared into the mind as fact, the truth because evil knows how easy it is to seize and control the minds of people. History, if interested, reveals example upon example upon further example] TikTok has begun a series of TV commercials, pure propaganda, regaling the compassionate, loving, helpful, beneficial side of its truly evil and addictive platform;

Link to video if unable to access by clicking on the above image.

Link to video.

I’m sure if you’ve been watching television in America you’ve seen other TikTok commercials promoting how altruistic, beneficial, and compassionate the platform is. Why do you think such ads are now produced and aired? What are they selling? And why?

The Serpent in the Garden didn’t enter frothing, foaming, frightening, and full of fury. No, the Serpent was and is cunning. Subtle. Appears helpful, caring, on your side, letting you know it’s all about you.

The Serpent escaped the Garden and is present everywhere. Ready to bite into and insert its poisonous deadly venom into the spirit, the soul, the mind of anyone weak enough, willing enough, lost enough to not understand the deadly thing they are embracing.

Do not be deceived.

To a generation that rejects the truth and receives all their history, all their news, all their information on a singular platform, one owned and operated by Communist China, an enemy of Amerca, an enemy of the West and liberty, freedom, a nation and people who have been indoctrinated in communist ideology of godlessness, anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-Christian, anti-freedom this is the main source you want to go to, to have your children go to for most of what enter their mind?

Do not continue to allow your children to rule the home and do whatever they will as some of the legions of young people addicted to TikTok. Do not believe them when they are telling you how much they use something, or what they are doing. Children lie. All the time. Don’t be sucked in lacking sound judgment, rational thought, critical thinking, and most of all objectivity just because they are your children. What then? They are also very different than most others, who grow into adults. Look around. Listen. Where are all the so, so special and gifted children unlike any others in our world now? As they have grown into adults and made this nation, and this world what it is. As a result of being pampered, spoiled, told how they are greater than any that came before them, and permitted to rule the home, do as they please, not receive discipline, and go anywhere they desired for as long as they desired to garner what passes for information, history, truth, and life in the glowing device in their hand.

Rather than having a foundation in the Word of God, in Biblical view parents, understanding and living the rightful order of things in a family as ordained by God our Creator.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Monday, November 20th, 2023

More Americans are getting news on TikTok, bucking the trend seen on most other social media sites

 

BY KATERINA EVA MATSA

November 15, 2023

From Pew Research Center

 

A small but growing share of U.S. adults say they regularly get news on TikTok. This is in contrast with many other social media sites, where news consumption has either declined or stayed about the same in recent years.

In just three years, the share of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has more than quadrupled, from 3% in 2020 to 14% in 2023.

TikTok, primarily known for short-form video sharing, has become especially popular among teens – two-thirds of whom report ever using the platform – as well as young adults.

Among adults, those ages 18 to 29 are most likely to say they regularly get news on TikTok. About a third of Americans in this age group (32%) say they regularly get news there, a higher share than in years before. This compares with 15% of those ages 30 to 49, 7% of those 50 to 64 and just 3% of those 65 and older.

More of TikTok’s U.S. adult users are getting news there as well. Currently, 43% of TikTok users say they regularly get news on the site, up from 33% who said the same in 2022. TikTok users are now just as likely to get news from TikTok as Facebook users are to get news from Facebook. Still, TikTok users are less likely than users of X, formerly Twitter, to get news on the site.

Note: Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology.

First Hamas, Now Osama Bin Laden Going Viral With U.S. Youth

November 17, 2023

By PNW Staff

Reprinted from Prophecy News Watch

Perhaps it shouldn’t shock us that those claiming support for Hamas on social media have found a new hero, Osama Bin Laden.

Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous “Letter to America,” in which he explained why he attacked the United States.

The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Many of them say that reading the letter has opened their eyes, and they’ll never see geopolitical matters the same way again.

Many of them say it has made them reevaluate their perspective on how what is often labeled as terrorism can be a legitimate form of resistance to a hostile power.  In other words, terrorists are the victims which is the same narrative being pushed on many U.S. college campuses.

This is not limited to TikTok; similar videos have been posted on other social media platforms.

It was initially the text of a writing by bin Laden, who masterminded the 9/11 atrocities against America, that was posted by the Guardian, which took it down after the anti-America rants started appearing on TikTok.

The New York Post reported lawmakers from both major parties were criticizing the promotion on the China-owned social media site as “terrorist propaganda.”

Bin Laden claimed he set up the deaths of nearly 3,000 on that day in 2001 because the United States was attacking “us” in Palestine.

That theme has been resurrected in many ways following last month’s atrocity-filled terror attack by Hamas, from Gaza, on Israeli civilians. An estimated 1,400 were killed within just hours.

As is typical with anti-Semitic agendas, bin Laden claimed the creation of Israel was a crime that “must be erased.”

Large portions of the letter focus on Israel and Jews. The word “Israel” appears 19 times in the document, while “Jews” are mentioned an additional 10 times. The first question bin Laden posed in the document is “Why are we fighting and opposing you?” And one of the first answers is, “You attacked us in Palestine.”

The al-Qaeda leader also said the idea “that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah,” is “one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history.” He wrote that Muslims superseded Jews as the inheritors of the Torah, and that the land therefore belongs to them.

In the second half of the letter, which describes bin Laden’s vision of a world governed by Islamic law and condemns American society.

Hamas, in fact, has in its founding documents the goal of eliminate Israel, and its population.

Among those apparently succumbing to the propaganda, the report said, was Lynette Adkins, a social-media influencer who got 100,000 likes and 5,500 comments ordering people to “stop what they’re doing right now and go read a letter to America.”

A second promoter of the letter said she would “never look at life the same, I will never look at this country the same. Please read it and if you have read it, let me know if you are also going through an existential crisis in this very moment, because in the last 20 minutes, the entire viewpoint on the entire life I have believed and I have lived has changed.”

“The videos in support of Bin Laden surfaced just days after The Post reported that several Republican lawmakers had renewed their calls for TikTok to be banned for spreading content that critics deemed as anti-Israel during the nation’s ongoing war with Hamas,” the Post reported. “Critics from both political parties have alleged that TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, is effectively a mass surveillance and propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party.”

Fox reported bin Laden claimed, “Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation.”

His rant continued, “The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its price, and pay for it heavily.”

His call for blood was clear: “The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone. These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression and aggression against us.

It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?!!”

And Bin Laden resorted to the tropes that Jews control “policies, media and economy.”

The report said another TikTok user read the entire letter, currently has over one million views.

The Guardian told Fox News Digital, “The transcript published on our website 20 years ago has been widely shared on social media without the full context. Therefore we have decided to take it down and direct readers to the news article that originally contextualized it instead.”

The Daily Mail reported people were claiming they understand the 9/11 atrocities by reading the “vile letter written by the warlord.”

“Bin Laden spews anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-Western viewpoints…” the report said. It said people were confusing “the hateful diatribe for an intellectual think piece.”

“In other sections of his correspondent, bin Laden blames the U.S. government for spreading AIDS throughout the world and sought to turn America into an oppressive religious state similar to Afghanistan,” the report said.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., noted the alarming trend…

“Now trending on social media (especially TikTok) people saying that after reading bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America,’ they now understand terrorism is a legitimate method of resistance against ‘oppression’ and America deserved to be attacked…”

Will these same people gushing over the letter on TikTok be celebrating in the streets like the supporters of Hamas when the next 9/11 happens on American soil?