The world's most popular website is a dangerous place, but it facilitates sports and party politics.
... [+]that TikTok’s American user data is routinely accessed by Chinese employees comes as no surprise. China’s global technology companies have long engaged in persistent data sharing thereby giving the Chinese government eyes and ears around the world. In 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order banning TikTok by forcing its divestment from Beijing based parent company ByteDance over concerns that the app was a national security threat, but President Biden rescinded the order.
is an attorney and former U.S. Senate Chief of Staff focused on technology policy and U.S./China relations. He weighed in on the flip-flopping with US policy to TikTok and how Americans, especially children, are at risk by using the platform., but it has grown in popularity to become the world’s most visited domain, surpassing Google. Why do people continue using it?
First, they see it as harmless fun. Users create light-hearted dance videos to share with others and some even get paid. It’s difficult to convince people that something they can dance to is a menace. There are over 100M active TikTok users in the U.S. and 63 percent of downloads are by children and adults between the ages of 10 and 29.
Second, President Biden embraces the platform. He invited TikTok influencers to the White House for a briefing on the war in Ukraine and the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have both joined the platform to woo young voters.In 2020, TikTok was the subject of combinedin California and Illinois after allegations that the platform harvested troves of unauthorized user data of adults and children and shared it with Beijing.
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