[darzu]

Let’s run a thought experiment:

All videos get assigned a 0-1 anti- vs pro-CCP score. Videos with a >0.5 score get a slightly (~5%) better chance of being shown, and <0.5 is slightly penalized. This would be undetectable if the algorithm is run off device. Anti-CCP content would still play often. But on the massive scale TikTok runs, this would still tilt opinion favorably towards CCP.

[4oh9do]

Yeah, I'm aware of the any number of infinite Evil China (TM) hypotheticals. Let's put the sinophobia on hold for just a second, and answer my question: what are the practical (meaning documented) privacy/security concerns with TikTok? I linked to a report from a (gasp, Western) group showing that there weren't any, but I'm aware that the report is a year old, so I'm very interested in documented recent information, not just mindless anti-China ranting.

[noptd]

>sinophobia

Purposely conflating China and the CCP, when the parent was criticizing the latter, is disingenuous at best.

>mindless anti-China ranting

And there goes arguing in good faith...

[em3rgent0rdr]

"documented". Unfortunately TikTok is closed source & proprietary. Though some privacy/security concerns can be gleaned via inspection of the binary and by viewing its network packets and such, it is still a black box running inside everyone's pocket.