Fantastic article. Meredith Whitaker hits the nail on the head. TikTok has very little to do with China. May as well be controlled by any other BRICS country. It’s just not US/West-controlled. It has everything to do with narrative control.
Case in point, the thousands of TikTok videos on the horrors of genocide. Generations of social engineering that set the stage for this have crumbled with the younger generations on TikTok, and rightfully so.
And when faced with an existential threat, there are no depths to the civil rights thievery and inhumanity to come from those that benefit from war, resource extraction (theft) and slavery in all it’s forms.
We have to resist the further degradation of basic human rights wherever we live.