Some ex-TikTok employees say the social media service worked closely with its China-based parent despite claims of independence

politics @lemmy.world – 208 points – 6 months ago

Former TikTok senior data scientist:

“I literally worked on a project that gave U.S. data to China”

“They were completely complicit in that. There were Americans that were working in upper management that were completely complicit in this.”

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Oh my god who cares

All these comapnies have your data, which they sell to anyone willing to buy it

Including the Chinese govt

This anti-Tik Tok campaign is just jingoistic noise and makes the US no better than the CPC who censored Facebook and Twitter years ago

Oh my god who cares

All these comapnies have your data, which they sell to anyone willing to buy of

Conformity is a slave mindset. Just because its done and legal does not mean its right.

Nationalist fearmongering does not make you free either, fellow slave

That's why I'm not a nationalist. Nice try tho.