FunFact
Four of the ten most-downloaded apps in the United States—across both Apple and Google platforms—are owned by Chinese companies.
They include Temu, SHEIN, TikTok, and CapCut.
CapCut is also owned by TikTok’s parent company ByteDance. CapCut is a video-editing app where users can create better-quality videos to post on their social media accounts.
ban one ban the lot right?
And that's just the top 4 Chinese apps there are loads of them on both app stores
Both ByteDance and the Chinese government are dismissive of “covert influence” claims made by the US and others. However, it’s interesting to note that most US-owned apps are not allowed to operate in China.
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https://www.axios.com/2023/03/27/americans-hooked-on-chinese-apps
ICYMI
TEMU app software has the full array of characteristics of the most aggressive forms of malware /spyware.
Why is Temu controversial?
Think about it
If apps and social media channels didn’t have a material impact on perception and propaganda, why then is China spending significant time and energy to prevent its citizens from accessing apps like Google and Facebook etc.....
China is kinda shielding its citizens from our bullshit right?
😂😂😂
Maybe they are ahead of it all
Maybe not when you know TikTok in China is actually different from TikTok in our countries China just know what they are doing
How China protects its children and makes ours stupid with the social network TikTok
There are two separate versions of TikTok one for us one for them
@ecksmc apart from TikTok I haven’t really heard about the others. Temu is a shite cheap shopping app right?
I rarely use apps. That’s what we have the web for.
@ecksmc I use ONE- instagram and that really doesnt count since i post nothing about my personal life on it
@ecksmc Problem is the algorithm is horrible with people with ADHD like me as it can't narrow down what I like as it constantly changes 31 yo millinial by the way
@ecksmc Ultimate Orwellian tool actually.
@ecksmc Chinese just dont realize it yet
@ecksmc They're not "protecting" their country against our bullshit, they just want to be the ones controlling the bullshit they feed to their people.
Lotta that going around.
When we see a group, including a country, doing something bad, we like to assume that people fighting them are good.Often, they're just bad guys fighting over who gets to be our slave master. Who gets to lie to us. Who gets to pick our pockets.
China's government is not a hero in this story.
@AskTheDevil obviously they are not protecting their country lol or citizens its obvious what they are doing
And never said chinas gov was a hero or even the good guy here
Fact of the mater is Chinese apps are beholden to Chinese government not just Chinese app companies but ever Chinese company - whereas apps created in our countries aren't - that's the big difference
@ecksmc I get that. I just have a bad habit of agreeing in ways that sound like I am challenging the person.
@ecksmc Oh, so it works like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Apple, Microsoft...
@ecksmc It only looks hypocritical, when you don't realize that fairness and shared standards are utterly unimportant to them. The ethic is not a double standard. The ethic is "We should get to do whatever we want, but nobody else should get to do anything we don't."
And they sure don't have a monopoly on that. Most of what we see is bullies fighting over who gets to take our lunch money and make the rules for their club.
@ecksmc Whereas we here in the US don't need the government for that. We just let insane, greedy oligarchs handle that stuff.
@ecksmc It's hypocritical. Hell all our phones/devices are from China.
Associated Press analysis notes that China “has quietly built a network of social media personalities who parrot the government’s perspective in posts seen by hundreds of thousands of people, operating in virtual lockstep as they promote China’s virtues, deflect international criticism of its human rights abuses, and advance Beijing’s talking points on world affairs like Russia’s war against Ukraine.”
https://apnews.com/article/china-tiktok-facebook-influencers-propaganda-81388bca676c560e02a1b493ea9d6760