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I'll 100% agree. The CCP is not China. China people are great. They are my people that was split by the civil war.
We are in a "used to it" kind of fear in Taiwan. The early morning fighter jet take-offs gets annoying, but the CCP ruled Taiwan would be much worse. While the USA has its sets of problems, at the very least the votes still sorta matter. If it didn't, we wouldn't have Trump.
While I don't use TT, I can't say what they feed users. I will say that nobody except the CCP knows what they are planning with your demographics. But the potential influence could be devastating. You don't know if they will flip the switch the week before they invade us. Or if they will do it after as damage control. Or they are trying to make Americans dumber since their own version of TT is geared more towards schooling and academics. https://kr-asia.com/how-bilibili-kuaishou-douyin-are-fostering-chinese-youngsters-education
As for the sources for journalist. Here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/ https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/22/23522808/tiktok-journalists-data-accessed-bytedance-internal-audit https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-bytedance-workers-fired-data-access-journalists
My profession is in web ads. The company I work for buys hundreds of thousands of dollars of ads in all different kinds of medium. This is my personal take on why I don't think TT is not an ads tool.
1- Impressions. Basically how many eye balls are on your product and for how long. Since TT can skip ads, it's impossible for calculate how much a vendor needs to pay and worse, how much to pay the content creator.
2- They don't know how to monetize the platform. They are constantly changing the cost structure. And the changes are almost always 1/2 ass. It has become so difficult to budget because of the constant changes. We don't spend ad dollars there much anymore because of it.
3- Although TikTok has been improving its analytics tools, the ROI tool is completely shit.
4- TT has zero SEO value since it does not live openly like youtube. It doesn't seem like they care to expand it either.
These are just on the top of my head.
I 100% agree that American corporations should not have all our data. And we should fight with all our might to keep our privacy.
But that in lies the problem. BECAUSE the American corporate privacy is so "lacks", apps like TikTok will try and act like any other American corporation that is harvesting data to sell more ads and then sell more shit to us. But it's not like the other apps. It seems like its primary purpose is a psyop tool.