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RFK Jr. and Vaccines: What Counts as a Disqualifying "Red Line”? Plus: Montana Becomes First State to Ban TikTok | SYSTEM UPDATE #84

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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Facebook Gives Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by US Intelligence

The idea of data sharing, collecting information about you, is basically the core business of Google and Facebook. When they don't just collect it on you, they turn it over in mass numbers indiscriminately to the NSA. If you're worried about being spied on by social media apps either don't use them or focus on the far bigger threat, which is Facebook and Google since there's so much larger. Lawmakers push to ban the app comes as they mull extending powers that force tech companies to facilitate mass snooping for the US.

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