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TikTok is causing almost as much panic as Huawei
TikTok is causing almost as much panic as Huawei, although its offence is knowing a lot about teenagers, rather than infiltrating broadband networks.
John GapperContributorHad China set out to devise a disarming way to challenge US hegemony in technology and entertainment, it could not have done better than TikTok. Who could dislike a sweetly addictive mobile app filled with 15-second looping videos of teenagers lip-syncing and dancing?
Plenty of politicians, it transpires. TikTok’s blunder in temporarily taking down a video of 17-year-old Feroza Aziz criticising China’s inhumane treatment of Uighur Muslims last week inflamed suspicions about the intentions of ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company.
Financial Times
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