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Is there anything actually interesting in these? It seems like it's just a document that formalizes talking points for main issues/questions they get. Talking points they've actively used!

I don't get why this is salacious. That TikTok PR thinks about these things? That TikTok PR tries to get people in the company aligned on how to respond? Thats what PR does. It'd be WAY weirder if they didn't.

If this document had "The Chinese Government reads all of your posts", I'd say there's something here. However, all this doc that says is stuff like "our CEO is American" and the only leaked out info is basically "The daily spending limit is $1000."

Watergate, this ain't. Yawn

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the real issue with tiktok is faang hasn't been able to buy or bury it despite hourly content scrapes to Facebook and YouTube shorts, same with huawei and the telecom giants. you can certainly play on the red scare sentiments of americas octogenarian bureaucrats however.

Its pretty pathetic that american companies cant compete with tiktoks social media dominance (because they are too busy optimizing for maximum ad engagement over user experience) and so are trying to engage in a xenophobic propaganda campaign instead of just giving some product managers the power to override decisions by the ad dept.

Instagram has a horrible ux, and they accept that because they'd rather chase dollars than user satisfaction. There is no moat around tiktok, it's just stubborn hubris.

TikTok is a national security threat. It’s more than just hubris.

all of social media is a national security threat, we just handwave away the dangers of domesticly owned social media because of excessive trust in the state and greed

facebook could extort billions out of its users using the data its already sitting on. they could also monetize that data by selling it to foreign intelligence. we've seen evidence of them doing similar things in the past, seems naive to expect they will never turn more evil, especially if they face a recession

I thought there were plans to force Tiktok to sell its American assets for peanuts and no data leaves US (only US corporations are allowed to spy on US citizens).

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