You are smoking some good stuff if you think Meta is in "western media's" good books over the past few years. How often have Tik Tok execs been dragged in front of Congress?
that's a supposition, disinformation perhaps
everyone can put javascript trackers on their website, even criminals
if data is this important why do we let companies harvest it and sell it without our consent?
what the chinese government has anything to do with tiktok? a private company that plan to go public with an IPO
hostile government? i think it's the opposite, the US government is hostile to china
why do they let them manufacture all of their goods if they are "that hostile"?
something doesn't compute well