If you didn’t see LAST WEEK TONIGHT with Jon Oliver on Sunday, the Main Story was about TikTok. As you might imagine, given the subject matter, it’s a wide open field for a lot of humor. The larger point, though, is that while the security and privacy issues with TikTok are very real, they exist, as well, for many, if not most — or all — of the social media platforms.
One quibble with the story. While their point about privacy issues with most social media platforms is correct and important, the story never really mentions in any substantive way the huge difference: that none of the other social media platforms are under run under the authority of a government — let alone a foreign government, let alone a foreign government that is of the of the major enemies of the United States, who could use the platform for political disinformation. Something that I think should at least of been addressed far more meaningfully in the story, rather than an offhanded mention once, since that’s the whole point of concern with TikTok.
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