TikTok Has a Not-So-Secret Weapon. Does it Matter?

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TikTok Has a Not-So-Secret Weapon. Does it Matter?
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“If there were to be a ban, I would lose a major source of income and a major source of community.”

to ban the Chinese-owned platform from the country altogether, and now the Biden administration is threatening to boot the app if ByteDance does not sell TikTok’s U.S. operations to a domestic owner.The arguments against TikTok boil down to a concern about data privacy and security, and the possibility that the Chinese government could have access to U.S. user data or use the platform for surveillance.

The idea was to echo the official corporate line, which is that TikTok is a platform beloved by millions , that Americans have built businesses on the platform (undoubtedly, though TikTok’s monetization programs

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