TikTok owner ByteDance scraped content from Instagram and others to push predecessor app
parent company Bytedance scraped profiles, videos, usernames and other content from Instagram and other social media platforms.that the Chinese company scraped “hundreds of thousands” of accounts for content without users’ consent. Flipagram, which ByteDance acquired back in 2017, allowed users to create short slideshow videos set to music — sort of a simplified version of TikTok and other short-form video apps.
The employees also allege that the scraped content from major US social media platforms was then used to build Bytedance’s “For You” algorithm. TikTok has yet to comment on whether Flipagram’s stolen data was used to build TikTok’s “For You” algorithm. Scraping publicly available data isn’t illegal by itself. Many social platforms find"creative" ways to boost their audience in their early days, like harvesting external content, creating
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