TIKTOK BYTEDANCE TOUTIAO CHINA

So we know about TikTok and their creepy child data issues, but one of the larger user groups in the US is young Service Men/Women.

Don't think I need to explain the importance of that.

https://piie.com/blogs/china-economic-watch/growing-popularity-chinese-social-media-outside-china-poses-new-risks

Bytedance & AI (2018 most valuable startup in world-UNICORN)

AI lab was founded in 2016 and headed by Wei-Ying-Ma (former assistant managing director Microsoft Research Asia-15yrs)

*2016 a missing persons alert system was started on the TaoTiao platform (imagine that)

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

Post Facebook?

"ByteDance is building what comes after Facebook. Since Bytedance started from mobile and with AI, and since it’s located in China where the greatest number of consumers live, it has a distinct advantage over Facebook or Google."

https://medium.com/futuresin/who-is-yiming-zhang-595a52c8ffb1