The popular video-sharing app's reputation for light-hearted fun belies a much darker threat, with the Chinese Government able to access data on over a billion of TikTok's users.
As an expert in Chinese social media, Fergus Ryan has embarked on a year-long study of TikTok and another Chinese-owned app called WeChat, looking into both platforms as potential tools for censorship and surveillance by Beijing authorities.
"That means when content is sent out by a user, and they think that their followers have seen it, but in fact, it's not being shown to anyone at all."In November, TikTok was forced to "Earlier this year, we added greater clarity to our Community Guidelines, giving users far more detail around how we define harmful or unsafe content that is not permitted on the platform." the statement said.
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