I have always had a bad guy feeling about tiktok. It never seemed right to me how it grew so quickly. It screams of privacy concerns even beyond what Facebook was doing and came after years of public scrutiny and general contempt for those kinds of privacy nightmares.....
everything about it says to me it was supported by military/government programs from early on and it was obvious to me that anything that powerful came with strings....
I saw Facebook turn into a monster....and it still doesn't have the data access that tiktok gets.....