Social media giant TikTok approved most political advertisements containing false and misleading information about U.S. elections despite assurances from the company that it had a robust mechanism for detecting such content, a new report has found. TikTok approved 90 percent of advertisements that featured misleading and outright false information about the upcoming 2022 U.S. midterm…
TikTok Failed to Prevent 90 Percent of Election Misinformation: Report
October 21, 2022
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Biden to Keep Releasing Oil from Reserve; TikTok Tracks You Across the Web: Report | NTD Business
President Joe Biden once again releases millions of barrels of oil from the strategic reserve. The move leaves the reserve at a decades-low and comes only 20 days before the midterms. A new report says TikTok is tracking you even if you don’t use the app. How? And what information is it getting? The IRS…
Nicolas Chaillan: The CCP Is Using TikTok to Manipulate Americans and Gather Data for AI Weapons
October 18, 2022
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TikTok is one of the Chinese regime’s most powerful weapons of mass manipulation and misinformation, argues Nicolas Chaillan, former chief software officer of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. TikTok was the most downloaded app globally and in the United States in 2021. The Chinese regime is using TikTok to manipulate Americans—particularly the younger…
TikTok Expanding to Everything
October 14, 2022
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Commentary TikTok is on a rampage, expanding into music, online purchases, search engines, fulfillment centers, and warehouses to rival not only Instagram, Facebook, and Google, but eventually Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon. TikTok, and the Chinese regime that controls it, would like to be America’s “everything app,” an idea that Elon Musk is thinking about,…
TikTok to Enter US E-Commerce With Seattle ‘Fulfillment Center’
TikTok, owned by ByteDance in China, will build a global fulfillment centre in Seattle, and set up an e-commerce supply chain system, said its job listings on LinkedIn, as first revealed by Axios on Oct. 11 . The ads in the past two weeks invited applicants for the “planning and solution design of fulfillment centres,” tasked…
Producer Prices Rose Fast in September; US Falls in School Rankings as China Rises | NTD Business
American universities have fallen in global rankings. Meanwhile, China’s universities have gone up. We speak with Times Higher Education, the organization that compiled the list. Risky home loans are getting more popular. Find out how future prospects look for mortgage rates. The UK is sending mixed messages about TikTok. The spy chief says it’s okay to use, but the…
Australians Worry About CCP Access to TikTok Data: Poll
October 11, 2022
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An overwhelming majority of respondents are concerned about Beijing being able to access Australian users’ personal information through TikTok, a poll has found. Victorian Liberal Senator James Paterson commissioned pollster Tele Town Hall last week to survey attitudes toward TikTok among nearly 630 people in the northern Melbourne constituency of McEwen and over 1,200 people…
Metaverse a ‘Huge Gamble’ for Zuckerberg: Business Expert
October 9, 2022
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse is a huge gamble on the part of the tech giant to recapture declining user numbers, according to Prof. Barney Tan at the University of New South Wales. Tan, also head of the School of Information Systems and Technology Management, said what Zuckerberg’s company Meta is proposing is to develop a virtual world…
Biden Admin’s Reported TikTok Security Agreement Is a ‘Bad Deal’: Rubio
October 6, 2022
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) criticized a reported preliminary deal between the Biden administration and TikTok that avoids major changes to the popular video-sharing app’s Chinese ownership. “Any ‘agreement’ with TikTok absent full divestment from ByteDance and the Chinese Communist Party is a bad deal–both for U.S. national security and for the millions of Americans whose…
US’s Reported TikTok Security Agreement Is a ‘Bad Deal’: Rubio
October 6, 2022
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) criticized a reported preliminary agreement between the Biden administration and TikTok that would avoid major changes to the popular video-sharing app’s Chinese ownership. “Any ‘agreement’ with TikTok absent full divestment from ByteDance and the Chinese Communist Party is a bad deal—both for U.S. national security and for the millions of Americans…
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