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the more we learn about tiktok, the more it seems to he designed to amplify and encourage bad behavior in humans

How so?

Google the death totals (particularly in children) from TikTok challenges.

Only brings up stuff about the "blackout challenge", which is something kids have been doing since before the internet.

ByteDance has a history of censoring and boosting content for the Chinese government. Yes, including content for Americans.

>TikTok Owner ByteDance Used A News App On Millions Of Phones To Push Pro-China Messages, Ex-Employees Say

>TikTok used to censor content that was critical of China, a senior executive admitted Wednesday.

> The censorship extended to content about the plight of Uighur Muslims in China, she said.

What if there's really no algorithm, and it's really just a bunch of human moderators intervening and controlling a few basic scripts?

-Questions no one is asking.

It doesn't matter if it is "clearly" being abused, only if it is abused.