TikTok isn’t the first non-American Internet service to get big in the US. — AFP
America is going to have to reckon with an Internet that is becoming less American.
Some US lawmakers on both sides of the partisan divide have said they are worried about TikTok, the app that lets users record and share short skits or dance routines to music. The app quickly became popular in the US and some other countries, and that has generated anxiety about TikTok’s ownership by the Chinese Internet company ByteDance Inc.
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