Episode 24 – Take control of contents you receive on your Tik Tok and Facebook Feeds

Not everyone receives the same content on their facebook or Tiktok account. There are two types of content; content based on your browsing history, your ethnicity and your address and content your ISP and your specific social platform want you to see.

Hello and welcome to Azazel Podcast; the show that discusses political entrepreneurship and political literacy to educate listeners on the power of corporate money on local politics and government. Listen on www.hazazel.com, Apple, Google, or wherever you get your podcasts. 

I am Dr. Bobb Rousseau. In today’s episode, I explain how your Internet Service Provider controls the content you receive on social network feeds. By the end of this episode, you will know how to apply some simple techniques to regain control of your privacy.    

Not everyone receives the same content on their facebook or Tiktok account. There are two types of content; content based on your browsing history, your ethnicity and your address and content your ISP and your specific social platform want you to see.  

When you search for travel or schools on Google, these social platforms will deliver travel and school contents to you. If by chance, you search for porn and dancing, the content you will receive will be a lot of porn or women shaking their booty. This type of content also includes videos you like or videos you receive from your friends.

Based on the country in which you live, there are contents your Internet Service Provider and your specific social platform want you to see. These platforms use a certain algorithm to deliver content to you. They deliver them to you based on what is trending or what they want you to know.

Have you ever wondered why your titok feed is filled with videos about racism, pranks, jokes, women shaking their booty but never or few videos about self-motivation, free enterprise or social responsibility. The end state is to keep you entertained and to manipulate you into thinking whatever they want you to and to act however they want you to. 

They double down on these contents because when they finally deliver a positive content to your feed, you only watch the first 3 seconds and go to share the stupid videos. The more you like or share a content, the more of that same content you receive.

Do you know that the Chinese or people in China do not receive or receive less of these videos? Their government ensures that Internet users in China receive social and educational content. They want Chinese people to know the good things about China and about China entrepreneurship. For the Chinese government, social networks are a tool to educate not to entertain. However here in America, 90% of us use it for funny and polarized videos. No wonder we are so illiterate, so lazy, and so woke to the point we cancel anyone who brings arguments different to the ones we receive on our Titok and Facebook feeds. When was the last time you made a conscious decision to watch a news channel that is not the one that came to your feed?

I am inviting you to do, if you can, a simple experiment. Go to China with the same cell phone you are using in America and open TitiTok. You will be disappointed to see that the content you receive will be to help you think for yourself and to  become a positive member of your community. 

However, I am not going to leave you without telling you how to take control of the content you receive. The techniques I am about to share with you apply for both TikTok and Facebook. I am unable to tell you if they will work for SnapChat and Instagram because I do not have an account with them.

Let’s start with your browsing history. On your cell phone,go to settings, then Safary, Chrome or whatever browser you use to go to the Internet. Look for Clear History and Website Data, and then Clear History data. Still on Settings, scroll down to locate Prevent Cross-Site Tracking and press on the button to turn it Gray.  

Now, let’s go on Tik-Tok, if there is a video that shows on your feed that you do not want to see anymore, place your finger on your screen, a window will open, select Not Interested. This type of content will no longer show on your feed. Remember also that you do not need to follow back everyone who follows you. 

Now, let’s jump on Facebook. More than likely, when you open facebook, you will land on Reels, not stories. If there is a video that shows on your feed you don’t like or you do not want to see anymore, open that video, on the bottom right of that video, you will see three vertical dots, click on them and select Hide Video. This type of content will no longer show on your facebook feeds.

However, TitkTok and Facebook will continue to deliver them to you, either you ignore them or you tell TikTok you are interested or hide them on Facebook. 

Did you also know that your phone listens to you when you talk and your microphone can respond to you when you ask a friend a question? In another podcast, I will show how to disable that option. 

When you use the Internet, you automatically give up your privacy but these platforms leave a way out for you. You just need to know it. If you don’t, you simply tell the world who you are like, what you like, and what you support. 

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