So like... does the US actually have any proof that TikTok is a "national security threat?" (hexbear.net)

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Seems to me it's only guilty of the same data scraping for marketing purposes that Meta is... maybe even less so as I always found TikToks advertising less gross than Instagrams.

Both suck but TikTok is slightly less suck.

Is it really a security thing or is it a "We are getting pressure from US companies to remove competition" thing?

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago

I'm sure it's only seen as a security threat because they can't lean on them the way they can U.S. based companies to control narratives and only push approved propaganda.

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