How fake news is created. To protect its market share, Facebook has hired a lobbying firm to demonize TikTok.
A company called Targeted Victory pays people to write op-eds in prominent newspapers; and recruits pay-for-play politicians to hype security threat of the “Communist China”.
@yogthos I think it's a pot/kettle problem, really. Both of them weaponise surveillance of their users and neither has a good track record in terms of transparency.