>>10145803

Because TikTok was developed by ByteDance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Yiming

>ByteDance is the developer of the video-sharing social networking service Douyin (TikTok). On November 9, 2017, ByteDance acquired social media start-up Musical.ly for up to US$1 billion. They combined it with TikTok on August 2, 2018 into a single global application, keeping the TikTok name.

>As of November 2018, ByteDance had over 800 million daily active users (over 1 billion accumulated users) across all of its content platforms.[8][9] The company was valued at $78 billion and is considered one of the most valuable unicorns in the world.[10] The company has an internal committee of theChinese Communist Partyas well as strategic partnerships with Chinese Communist Party-supported ventures in Beijing and Shanghai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance

Lurk moar.

>>10145905

Here's some moar necessary reading.

In February 2017, ByteDance acquired Flipagram.[38] In July 2017, ByteDance launched their UGC short video platform Hypstar (Vigo Video) in Southeast Asia.[39] In November 2017, ByteDance acquired global news app News Republic and global lip-sync video community musical.ly.[36][40] In November 2019, it was reported that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States had opened an investigation into ByteDance regarding its acquisition of musical.ly on national security grounds after it dissipated from TikTok on August 2, 2018. The app now takes on the TikTok name.[14][41]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical.ly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toutiao

I don't think you get it.

Do you not get we're at war?

A Chink communist app that's used to track all American's data whom use it and then backed by a machine learning news program that pushed communist news aka propaganda against America's interest and to its people?

Stop buying [[[their]]] products.

You think "the only winning move is to not play the game" was just a line in a movie?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susquehanna_International_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Capital