We spoke with journalist Chris Stokel-Walker, author of 'TikTok Boom: China's Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media', to get a bit more insight.
The thought of going viral is almost like winning the lottery. Would you say it’s the ultimate goal of users or someone putting out videos?
I think it’s probably the underlying thing. The idea of creators as a career has shot up in the last decade or so, but particularly in the last few years. More kids now want to be YouTubers than astronauts. There is this idea that you can make money on these platforms, so people started to treat it that much more seriously.”
The angst in Washington seems to be the fear that the Chinese government is gaining access to US user data—would you agree? Yeah, there are two prongs. One is the idea that this is a dry vacuum hoovering up our data to be siphoned off to China and then used against us. The other is that this is a Trojan horse where it can present propaganda to us in a way that we assume doesn’t happen elsewhere. Both of those are not problems that are unique to TikTok, and they’re not necessarily as pressing issues as I think some people think they are.
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