The difference between TikTok and other major social media? TikTok isn't an American company-it's owned by a Chinese firm, ByteDance.
ByteDance, a company now valued at $100 billion, launched TikTok in 2017, and entered the U.S. market when it bought the Shanghai-founded app Musical.
TikTok thinks it can convince people it's not really a Chinese company.
The spokesman for the company has insisted that TikTok isn't a Chinese company, on the basis that ByteDance is incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
We should call a spade a spade: TikTok is a Chinese company, and its track record and immense data collection presents a danger to Americans and democracy.
TikTok has used its reach and content moderation capability to help cultivate the Chinese government's preferred global narrative.
Only an enormous amount of transparency, cooperation, and foundational change would transform TikTok into a tech company we can trust with our data.
ByteDance, a company now valued at $100 billion, launched TikTok in 2017, and entered the U.S. market when it bought the Shanghai-founded app Musical.
TikTok thinks it can convince people it's not really a Chinese company.
The spokesman for the company has insisted that TikTok isn't a Chinese company, on the basis that ByteDance is incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
We should call a spade a spade: TikTok is a Chinese company, and its track record and immense data collection presents a danger to Americans and democracy.
TikTok has used its reach and content moderation capability to help cultivate the Chinese government's preferred global narrative.
Only an enormous amount of transparency, cooperation, and foundational change would transform TikTok into a tech company we can trust with our data.
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