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The Sins of TikTok Are Not Unique to TikTok

January 17th, 2025 | 3 min read

By Chris Martin

The United States is set to ban TikTok over the weekend. Since exploding in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic, TikTok’s role in internet culture and broader American culture has only grown. With it, so have concerns about data privacy and cultural subversion by the Chinese government, whom many fear may have access to American data through the app and intentionally undermine Americans through TikTok’s world-class algorithm and the content it delivers to users.

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Chris Martin

Chris Martin is director of content at Moody Global Media. He is the author of two books about social media: The Wolf in Their Pockets (Moody, 2023) and Terms of Service: The Real Cost of Social Media (B&H, 2022). Chris and his wife, Susie, live with their family outside Nashville, Tennessee.