Do you really think genz/millennials do research for social media aps? especially the "hot" one all their friends are using
True but it has over 170 million users in the US right now and watching all this on tv, there was a graph that showed 2 years ago 23% of people under 25 got their news off tiktok, now its 45%.
I'm showing my age but I'm just amazed at how younger people don't care about their personal info being out there. Its 100% guarantee that the CCP has a "file" on every US users filled with data about them, yes many US companies do as well but there is a huge difference between them a foreign adversarial country
IMO the bigger concern is steering news/information to users, their algorithm can be skewed to hide certain views or news story and prop up others
I guess it boils down to are American citizens ok with China influencing their children? Personally I think all social media tiktok/twitter/insta and everything else like should be shit down but I don't see that happening
See above
One of the tv anchors mentioned a similar thing happened with grindr a few years and the parent company divested to a US company and as far as user go, nothing changed for them.