Comment Re:Rebecca Watson on YouTube made a good point (Score 1) 120
which is that this doesn't solve anything. If China wants to manipulate us they can do it like Russia does with troll & bot farms.
That's because it's not really about foreign manipulation. It's that Meta and YouTube's short format offerings aren't as popular with the young kids, and they see a potential future where something like WeChat comes along and dethrones them in other aspects of the social media sphere as well.
Nobody wants to be the next "MySpace", and these days the established social media players spend enough lobbying money to make sure that never happens, so they can keep legally buying up domestic competitors, and getting any foreign competitors banned (or bought out - hey - it's even in the damn bill!). It's so blatantly corrupt.