The article argues that major social media platforms like Meta, Twitter (X), and TikTok have increasingly embraced far-right ideologies and prioritize aligning with political figures like Donald Trump. The author cites examples like Meta's policy changes forcing users to follow Trump and his administration, Musk's reinstatement of controversial right-wing figures on X, and TikTok's public display of gratitude towards Trump despite national security concerns. The author concludes that the negative impacts of social media on society outweigh the benefits, calling for a critical re-evaluation of our relationship with these platforms.
Is Meta making your Instagram account follow Trump? Do you believe the experts and your own eyes that Elon Musk did a Nazi salute twice at the US presidential inauguration? Do you think that it’s normal that TikTok sent a simpering pop-up to 170 million US users thanking Trump for vowing to break the laws he just swore to protect? It’s time we wrap up our time on state-affiliated social media.
It’s all spiralling quite quickly. Our most formative modern method of communication with each other has declared itself explicitly far-right and is willing to do whatever it takes to stay in’s good graces. Each of these apps has become a dangerous place to be that does not care about the damage it does and they are no longer pretending that is not the case.
At the inauguration, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai sat in front of Trump’s Cabinet nominees during the ceremony after donating $250 million to the event. As TikTok is under scrutiny for national security concerns in the US, the app’s CEO Shou Zi Chew sat next to Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence.
Here’s what’s happening on our main social media apps as Donald Trump has become the 47th President of the US. Meta went MAGA a week before the inauguration by changing it’s policies toenforced millions of users to automatically follow Trump, vice president JD Vance and US First Lady Melania Trump. Users are finding that even unfollowing these accounts isn’t working. Meta says this is because users were previously following the POTUS and various White House accounts that have changed ownership with the new president and that they are also working to resolve an issue with Instagram that means that usersX, the platform owned by Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and Trump’s new right-hand man has long been.
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