Corporate media reflexively go to bat for Chinese spyware app TikTok

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TikTok, the popular video-sharing platform in which zoomers and baby boomers debase themselves in pursuit of viral notoriety, is a Chinese spyware app.

The app’s security concerns are serious enough that the U.S. Department of Defense ordered military personnel in December 2019 to delete the Chinese-developed-and-owned program from government-issued and personal smartphones. The concerns are serious enough that the Biden 2020 campaign similarly ordered staffers in July to delete the app from work and personal smartphones.

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