TikTok, like other Chinese companies, obeys the Communist Party, not only out of survival or self-interest, but allegiance. Silicon Valley is filled with Chinese mainland engineers who do much of the grunt work and who are legitimately nationalists of their own country and pass on whatever technology they can back to their own home country.

Russian companies are largely loyal to their country and their regime.

American Big Tech companies however are fundamentally disloyal. Even as they interfere in our elections, they have no allegiance to the United States of America.

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Twitter have removed an influence operation from their networks that promoted U.S. foreign policy interests abroad

It was the first time that an influence campaign pushing U.S. interests abroad had been discovered and taken down from the social media platforms. The operation, which ran for almost five years on eight social networks and messaging apps, promoted the views, values and goals of the United States while attacking the interests of Russia, China, Iran and other countries, the researchers found.

Good thing that’s been taken care of.

Facebook and Twitter would say that they’re impartially enforcing the rules even what looks like against their own country. The tech companies of China and Russia don’t do that. They view themselves as having a common interest with their own countries. Our tech companies do not. They have transnational ideological affiliations, leading them to cheer on Black Lives Matter and refuse to enforce the rules against leftist abuses. They afford no such leniency to non-woke national operations.

Posts from the effort claimed that the Iranian government took food from its citizens to give to the Hezbollah militant group, or highlighted embarrassing moments for the country, such as a power outage that reportedly caused the Iranian chess team to lose an international online tournament.

On Facebook and Instagram, dozens of posts also negatively compared opportunities for Iranian women with those for women abroad.

Understandable that Facebook would want to suppress that sort of propaganda. 

Much of the tech industry was built with defense funding from taxpayers. And Big Tech repaid all that funding by seizing control of the means of commerce and communication, wiping out our retail sector and then our free speech, while making it abundantly clear that it has no allegiance to the country that funded it, created it and continues to host it.

A basic question is if Facebook feels no allegiance to the United States, is there any reason for us not to treat it as a foreign influence operation and do something about its continuing interference in our elections and our civil rights?