A move to buy TikTok’s US arm could radically reshape the controversial social media app and its mysterious algorithms.
A billionaire-backed “people’s bid” to buy TikTok in the US is gathering steam, in a move that could radically reshape the controversial social media app and its mysterious algorithms.
Aiding those efforts is Audrey Tang, a Taiwanese politician and programmer who until recently served as Taiwan’s first-ever minister of digital affairs, as well as the first trans and non-binary Taiwanese government minister. A law signed by US President Joe Biden has given TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance until January 19 next year, over fears China could access Americans’ data or surveil them through the app.
“Like, I don’t really enjoy very short videos, I enjoy longer form. I enjoy interactions, I enjoy journalistic content with investigations and so on. And imagine if I can just tell my “for you” feed that I prefer these things, and then it just curates based on my interests, instead of the advertisements or whatever that remote controls TikTok. It will be a very different place.
“I think by far it’s the largest source of people’s unhappiness,” they said of social media algorithms.“It often sorts by so-called engagement, curiosity, constructiveness and so on. I still use the internet the way it was meant to be used before this algorithmic ‘for you’ feed thing. I have an intention, I want to seek out some people, explore a topic or start a conversation, and I can do all that without getting sidetracked or distracted by an algorithmic feed.
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