2024/04/24

Charlie Warzel Weighs in on Wonky Logic Driving U.S. “TikTok Meltdown”

● 24/04/2024
“The logic is that TikTok is the beating heart of a social-media industrial complex that mines our data and uses them to manipulate our behavior, and, as such, it is very bad for an authoritarian country to have access to these tools.”
– Tech columnist Charlie Warzel, encapsulating the U.S. bill demanding that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, sell its app or be banned in America. Skeptical that ‘ties to China’ is the real problem, Warzel notes “if the government believes this is true, should anyone have access to these tools?”
The Atlantic
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