Families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70% of the proceeds; "the BBC used the in-app system to report 30 accounts featuring children begging"

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70% of the proceeds; "the BBC used the in-app system to report 30 accounts featuring children begging"

DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml · 2 years ago

Isn’t TikTok Chinese?

If so, I hope China can do something about this. Disgusting.

CritiGalDesist∞@lemmygrad.ml · edit-2 2 years ago

Originated from China! And then the ByteDance’s Global business been forcefully hijacked by the Americans (West)

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

TikTok is still owned by ByteDance. Trump made an absurd attempt to ban it and/or force them to sell it, but he got effectively laughed out of court.

ByteDance graciously agreed to physically host it on Oracle Cloud, so that the US can have unfettered access to all the data too, but it is still completely owned and controlled by ByteDance.

ThatCakeThough@lemmygrad.ml · 2 years ago

It’s American, completely separate from the Chinese counterpart.

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

What led you to think that? (See my other comment above…)

Families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70% of the proceeds; "the BBC used the in-app system to report 30 accounts featuring children begging"

Families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70% of the proceeds; "the BBC used the in-app system to report 30 accounts featuring children begging"

TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging