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The TikTok War
How TikTok exposed Facebook’s blindspot, thanks to its Chinese roots, and why those Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern.
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The New Yorker
TikTok and the Vibes Revival
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8 min read · Apr 26th · Increasingly, what we’re after on social media is not narrative or personality but moments of audiovisual eloquence.
Citizen Lab
TikTok vs Douyin: A Security and Privacy Analysis
Citizen Lab
Mar 22nd · A comparative analysis of security, privacy, and censorship issues in TikTok and Douyin, both developed by ByteDance.
MIT Technology Review
He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can't fix its misinformation addiction
MIT Technology Review
20+ min read · Mar 11th · Three years ago, the company began building "responsible AI." This is the story of how it failed.
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