The problem with TikTok isn't China, it's not privacy, it's that it's designed as a digital narcotic, feeding people messages that are perfectly tailored to their prejudices and biases and assumptions, and encouraging creators to make more of those messages to grow their audience

TikTok is the best machine humanity has yet invented for creating and accelerating groupthink, and the radicalization that groupthink causes. It figures out exactly what audiences want to hear, and feeds them those precise messages, straight from the mouths of their peers