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
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.”
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.
¯\(°_o)/¯
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?
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 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