EtadanikM t1_j1e7nce wrote on December 23, 2022 at 5:30 PM

Reply to comment by Witty-Village-2503 in TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists - ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses by BasedSweet

I mean, Tik Tok IS being targeted because it's Chinese. We're NOT trying to be "objective" here. The US has determined that China is an enemy state and so its social media platforms cannot be allowed to access American data due to intelligence risks.

That IS what is happening. No one is denying it.

Uber, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are American so it's fine.

Witty-Village-2503 t1_j1ebze9 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 5:59 PM

I'm not American, but, like, all the fears about tiktok are also true for American social media companies.

Arguably Facebook has been used to promote election misinformation more than tiktok.

So why ignore these companies?

Facebook Acted Too Late to Tackle Misinformation on 2020 Election, Report Finds

Chaos_Ribbon t1_j1eb4o1 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 5:53 PM

But let's be realistic here... it's not fine. And TikTok is being used as a scapegoat to pull media attention away from every other social media that does the exact same thing.

Rather than fix the underlying problem across the board, US politics are only focusing on the one they can't manipulate themselves.