Trump Says Tiktok Should Be Tweaked to Become "100% Maga"
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Former President Trump suggests modifying TikTok to align with MAGA ideology, sparking concerns about government influence on social media platforms, with commenters drawing parallels to the Murthy v. Missouri case.
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SCOTUS ruled (IMO correctly) that simply any contact between the feds (some of the evidence was just that phone calls had taken place) does not mean they had coerced these media sources. After all politicians do call news people and so on to say "hey your story was wrong" and that's normal.
Several conservative judges dissented and wanted to rule that the feds had coerced these media orgs and were wrong to do so.
So here we are today, the feds threatening news people, arranging their buddies buy media orgs and outright saying they should manipulate the information available.
Doubt they have much to say about it ... because of course it's ok when it is their guy.