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FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Calls for Ban on China’s TikTok

FCC commissioner Brendan Carr is calling for the popular Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok to be banned in the United States over privacy concerns. Even Democrats are voicing concerns over Tiktok, with Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) saying, “This is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago.”

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Zuck’s Misfire: Instagram Copied China’s TikTok but Falls Miserably Behind

Facebook’s Instagram is struggling to compete with China’s TikTok in the short-form video content realm despite the roll-out of its “Reels” feature. According to internal company documents, the daily watch time of Reels is less than 10 percent of the time spent watching videos on the the massively popular China-owned platform.

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Snap CEO: TikTok’s Success Due to ‘Billions And Billions of Dollars’ Spent by Communist China

Speaking at the Code Conference in Los Angeles, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel gave his thoughts on how China-owned TikTok has dominated the online video market in such a short space of time. Spiegel explained how Communist China has overpowered social media through seemingly unlimited spending, saying: “What nobody had anticipated in the United States was the level of investment that ByteDance made into the U.S. market, and of course in Europe, because it was just something that was unimaginable — no startup could afford to invest billions and billions and billions of dollars in user acquisition like that around the world.”

Shou Zi Chew, chief executive officer of TikTok Inc., during an interview at the TikTok of

China’s TikTok Is Pushing Adderall on Teens

TikTok is promoting “sketchy” new telehealth startups offering prescription drugs such as Adderall to teenage and young adult users. Prescriptions for Adderall increased by 25 percent for the 24-44 age group during the pandemic, which some experts have attributed to “the emergence of digital mental health platforms.”

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