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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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[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago

The campaign to ban TikTok started immediately after Israel blamed TikTok for young people hating genocide.

An article from March 2024 pointing to the leaked phone call as the source of the ban: Leak shows pro-Israel lobby chief blaming TikTok for pro-Palestine youth. Now the US is banning the app.