TikTok is a national security threat. 🚨 80 million Americans now spend 20% of their free time scrolling through an algorithmic content experience owned by the Chinese Government. This scandal has uncovered lie after lie over the past years. Here is a quick timeline 👇 1/5

Oct 2019: TikTok promised lawmakers they’d follow data locality guidelines and keep US data local. Dec 2019: They lied — instead they were caught sending mass data back to Chinese servers. When caught, they admitted it and entered frivolous "negotiations" [0]. 2/5

July 2020: TikTok said the data would not be abused in China, and was highly restricted. Data collection continued for years. June, 2022: They lied, as whistleblowers leaked proof showing many Chinese employees had unfettered access to American data. [1] 3/5

August, 2022: The CCP passed a regulation that forced all Chinese companies (incl. TikTok) to give all data and algorithms to the CCP. Today: The CCP now has your data, and TikTok US still refuses to stop sending them your data. And 80 million Americans keep scrolling. 4/5

Footnotes: [0] When negotiating, US lawmakers were able to get TikTok to stop collecting... birthday. And they very stupidly allowed Tiktok to keep sending post/activity data. [1] Easy for the CCP to copy data if the door is wide open. And lets TikTok deny working w/ the CCP.

@zachtratar Yeah and while you’re at it don’t let US companies control any overseas media either. What bad things can TikTok do with my data that Google and Facebook don’t already? Name just 3 things please. Or even 1.

@zachtratar You’re such a midwit. Never once stopped to ask why Google, Facebook and Amazon are banned in China. You’re one sided, weak and a bad developer. The app is just better because their software engineers are working harder. @Apple rigorously code reviews every single app.

@zachtratar Why do I care that they see that I’m watching dance videos…?

@zachtratar Terms of service alone should make you want to stay away. Through the app they can access all the data on your phone. More than you expect your contacts, emails, you name it.

@zachtratar @DavidSacks

@zachtratar TikTok is a goldmine for big data about people. China has been collecting data from anywhere it could, including large data breaches. This is then processed to find troves of useful information about anyone using it, the locations they are at and people/things that are captured