The $5B fund for Trump Youth schools is unbelievable. Cherry on top of this circus.
I need 10,000 words about how this ‘Education Fund’ entered the fold. It’s not a donation from China, as some are interpreting it, but the parallels to Chinese authoritarianism are eerie as hell.
Bloomberg reports: “the new U.S. TikTok company will control the [Education Fund] money and choose how it’s invested.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Does this sound familiar? In Xinjiang, ByteDance cooperates to control the information space and disseminate propaganda. Will ByteDance view Trump’s demands in the same way? Did the TikTok debacle not only export cyber sovereignty, but thought control? aspi.org.au/report/mapping…
Trump’s deal has not only seemingly left behind concern for privacy, data security, and national security, but appears to also embrace half of the TikTok problem — the potential for state-controlled algorithmic disinformation.
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