That's actually why TikTok got canned. They didn't really care about the data collection, it's because they couldn't force TikTok to moderate to their liking like Facebook, Google, and Twitter since they were foreign based.

Which is also why they sold its majority ownership to Larry Ellison (Oracle) who is infamously a hardcore Zionist.

But seriously, the amount of content that gets deleted and whitewashed online is insurmountable. OSINT becomes a pain in the ass because you literally cannot find the origin of media because the user was either wiped and banned or shared on private channels like WhatsApp or Telegram where you'll never find the original person who shared it

Luckily, everyone mass reposts which makes it near impossible to remove the content itself, but then tou have to use alternative methods to develop a timeline, authenticity, context, etc.