Media outlets around the world must reassess their relationship with the Beijing-controlled platform TikTok – an operation deemed to be both a national security risk and a central aspect of modern digital editorial strategies to reach new demographics.
The risks are far too great for any serious news publisher to ignore and the gains are negligible at best.
How can any journalist cover that story independently and forensically if its own newsroom has an editorial strategy contingent on using TikTok to bolster reach? has called for TikTok to be removed from corporate phones while simultaneously continuing to publish from an account with more than four million followers.If the platform is such high a risk of espionage that corporate phones must be purged, then morally, how can newsrooms justify emboldening that ecosystem with content and drawing more viewers to the service?
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