by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Yesterday, for one brief moment, Tik-Tok was a really good source of information about about the murder of Alex Pretti at the hands of a thuggish border control agent.
But since then, it’s almost as if the owners of the service have freaked out and tweaked the algorithm. Tik-Tok is now useless. There is a growing amount of MAGA disinformation on there to the point that I don’t even want to use it any.
It is curious that for a few hours there, Tik-Tok actually was, like, good at disseminating information. My fear, of course, is the whole point of MAGA thugs owning Tik-Tok is to warp the media landscape to the point that people maybe not as clued-in will fall for MAGA disinformation as we enter the 2026 midterm elections.
This is another sign that we probably will not have free-and-fair elections ever again in my lifetime. We’re going to become a “managed democracy” like they have in Hungary and Turkey and, lulz, that’s it.
