1. TikTok has a "heat" button. It can make anyone go viral. This is not uncommon to other platforms artificially boosting some content, but this is much more deliberate than the other methods. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/01/20/tik...
2. Persuasion is two things: exposure and frequency. The native way that TikTok works allows for this to happen easily. Imagine a tool that is very good at this being controlled by a government that is hostile to most of the rest of the world.
3. The idea of the open internet was based on actors working in good faith. The CCP does not do this (the Great Firewall of China).
4. Bytedance (TikTok's parent company, and directly controlled by the CCP) has donated substantial amounts of money to various US-based political caucuses.
1. TikTok has a "heat" button. It can make anyone go viral. This is not uncommon to other platforms artificially boosting some content, but this is much more deliberate than the other methods. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/01/20/tik...
2. Persuasion is two things: exposure and frequency. The native way that TikTok works allows for this to happen easily. Imagine a tool that is very good at this being controlled by a government that is hostile to most of the rest of the world.
3. The idea of the open internet was based on actors working in good faith. The CCP does not do this (the Great Firewall of China).
4. Bytedance (TikTok's parent company, and directly controlled by the CCP) has donated substantial amounts of money to various US-based political caucuses.