Current TikTok and ByteDance Employees Used to Work for Chinese State Media

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/10/bytedance-tiktok-china-state-media-propaganda/

by partiallypro • 4 years ago

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Flatcircle• 4 years ago

TikTok should have been banned in America so an American version could have replaced it. Chinese state media is sketch

krapp• 4 years ago

... because it's better to be spied on and propagandized by your own government as opposed to a foreign one?

hunglee23• 4 years ago

this is correct, when you think about it, it is much better for the citizen to be spied upon by a foreign state rather than the domestic one - we are in much greater danger from our own governments, than we ever are from 'the great other'

unknownaccount• 4 years ago

How is banning something we don’t like compatible with the concept of free speech? If we ban TikTok, we’re not better than the CCP.

hunglee23• 4 years ago

plenty of ex-CIA / NatSec being hired too now though, so we're all good.

blitzar• 4 years ago

Current Google and Facebook Employees "Used to Work" for the US Government / Military / Western Governments / CIA.

hunglee23• 4 years ago

And I believe CIA was significant early funder of Google

Current TikTok and ByteDance Employees Used to Work for Chinese State Media

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