In this mailing: - Gordon G. Chang: Warning: China Retains Algorithm, Loves Oracle's TikTok Deal
- Judith Bergman: Facebook Promotes Holocaust Denial
by Gordon G. Chang • September 22, 2020 at 5:00 am "The more reporting I do on this the more it is a sleazy back room deal that protects no one and advantages Trump supporters and, inexplicably, the Chinese government." — Kara Swisher, America tech journalist and guru, Twitter, September 20, 2020. "ByteDance in driver seat, algorithm in Chinese hands." — Eunice Yoon, CNBC's Beijing Bureau Chief, Twitter, September 21, 2020. "The TikTok team retains stewardship over the app." — Shen Yi, professor, Fudan University, China Daily, September 21, 2020. As Senator Marco Rubio told Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on the 20th of this month, control of the source code is critical... Beijing, not surprisingly, seems determined to keep all of TikTok's secret sauce. What's not [for China] to like? Beijing-based ByteDance gets a lot of cash — the app will carry a valuation that could be as high as $60 billion — and the Communist Party will be able to continue to use TikTok for malign purposes. The only acceptable arrangement, however, is to completely sever China from TikTok's U.S. operations — or ban the app entirely.
 ByteDance Ltd., the privately owned Chinese technology company, will soon sell minority ownership stakes in the TikTok app to American companies Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. The proposed arrangement, however, does little to address the most important U.S. national security concern with the wildly popular video-sharing platform. Pictured: ByteDance's corporate headquarters in Beijing, China. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images) ByteDance Ltd., the privately owned Chinese technology company, will soon sell minority ownership stakes in the TikTok app to American companies Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. Oracle will become the "secure cloud technology provider" for a new U.S. company, TikTok Global, which will own most of the app's worldwide operations. The proposed arrangement, however, does little to address the most important U.S. national security concern with the wildly popular video-sharing platform. Using his emergency powers, President Trump on August 6 prohibited, after the expiration of a 45-day period, Americans from any transaction with ByteDance or any of its subsidiaries. As a practical matter, the order contemplated the closure of the TikTok app if it was not sold to an American company. The order has been extended. Continue Reading Article by Judith Bergman • September 22, 2020 at 4:00 am Researchers say that as they viewed Holocaust-denying pages and posts on Facebook, the social media site's algorithm promoted even more Holocaust denial content to them.... Facebook takes down such posts only in countries such as Germany, France and Poland where Holocaust denial is illegal. As the Institute for Strategic Dialogue out in its report, however, Holocaust denial is not about people getting history "wrong": "This speech seeks not only to minimise the suffering of Jews during the Holocaust, but to mitigate criticism of Nazism, and justify ongoing attacks against the Jewish people. Due to the intimate intersection between Holocaust denial and hate targeting Jews, such content should be regarded as inherently anti-Semitic". Given Facebook's public commitment to fighting "hate speech" on its site, Facebook's refusal to acknowledge international guidelines on anti-Semitic hate speech by reducing Holocaust denial to a mere instance of "getting things wrong" -- while using its algorithms to promote Holocaust denial -- is clearly unacceptable. Holocaust survivors have now launched an online campaign, #NoDenyingIt, calling on Facebook to remove Holocaust denying material from its website. "How can somebody really doubt it?" asked Eva Schloss, a Holocaust survivor. "Where are the six million people? There are tens of thousands of photos taken by the Nazis themselves. They were proud of what they were doing."
 Facebook has been promoting Holocaust denial on its platform, according to a recent report by The Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Holocaust survivors have launched an online campaign, #NoDenyingIt, calling on Facebook to remove Holocaust-denying material from its website. "How can somebody really doubt it?" asked Eva Schloss (pictured), a Holocaust survivor. "There are tens of thousands of photos taken by the Nazis themselves. They were proud of what they were doing." (Photo by Evert Elzinga/AFP via Getty Images) Facebook has been promoting Holocaust denial on its platform, according to a recent report by The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), "Hosting the 'Holohoax': A Snapshot of Holocaust Denial Across Social Media". "Holocaust denial has long been one of the most insidious conspiracy theories targeting Jewish communities, with its extremist proponents drawn from across the ideological spectrum, from extreme right-wing to hard left to Islamist", the report states. "Research has shown that digital platforms have only served to amplify and mainstream this warped strain of thinking in recent years". Researchers from ISD gathered posts using the keyword "holohoax" from between June 1, 2018 and July 22, 2020 on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and YouTube. According to ISD: Continue Reading Article |
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