Do we really need to remove TikTok from the more than 1 billion people that it has worldwide usage? In the United States, Joe Biden just signed the Bill giving the parent company of ByteDance, a Chinese company, nine months to get rid of the nugget and recommendation algorithm. The thought is to break any potential links with Beijing. If this rule is not complied to, TikTok downloads will be prohibited in the United States.
Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of the app that motivates people to share the short videos, has already declared that he will dispute this decision by contrasting the freedom of speech with national security protection. As for TikTok Lite, launched in France and Spain at the end of March, it has been suspended in Europe: this application, which online watchers are given virtual coins for watching several videos, which can be later converted into gift cards, was considered too intrusive by Brussels.
Countering disinformation
How come TikTok has so many enemies all over the world, even though it is banned in India and it is also Canada, which advises its officials not to use it? Contrariwise, her success makes her the perfect one for it. Its algorithm is a necessity for a newly established company.
The New Zealand app, TikTok, has already created 12,500 jobs in France, where there are 14 million regular users, according to the app that was created in 2016. Moreover, Shou Zi Chew promptly remarks that other social networks like YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels which are popular for viral videos also rely on addictive algorithms. However.
Stories like @particleclara that is a researcher at CERN and Clara Nellist, a particle physicist, who is the one who shares her passion for the subject @ordresdegrandeur, where many math geniuses express themselves and @entouteslettres, which is a love of literature should be a viral topic.
So is the fight against misinformation: NewsGuard reports that around 20% of the videos passed last year were about fake news. This fight could pave the way for the better valorization of the sources of the information shared, for instance, in the Perplexity mobile application, which has been excelling in it for almost two years.
