How was TikTok was able to escape the ire of the US gov't? By stocking its staff with NATO and National Security personnel according to a new investigation by Alan Macleod.
  • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    a lotta people think western tik tok and Chinese tik tok are the same, when nope they are run by entirely different people and are even a different company I'm pretty sure. the CPC does not have any tiny dot of control there, but you can sure as shit see the US governments in what gets pushed and what gets taken down

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Ooh so that's why it suddenly started sucking ass, ideology wise I mean

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I hadn't even heard about this one: "In 2020, the U.S. government even forced Chinese-owned Grindr to be sold to a U.S. company, deeming the LGBT dating app to be a “national security threat.”"