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TikTok: The Digital Equivalent of Crack Cocaine

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TikTok: The Digital Equivalent of Crack Cocaine
A teenager presents a smartphone with the logo of the Chinese social network TikTok on Jan. 21, 2021. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images
John Mac Ghlionn
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ByteDance employees in China have repeatedly accessed the private information of tens of millions of American TikTok users, according to a recent report from BuzzFeed News. The people behind the app can’t be trusted. Moreover, the app itself is dangerous. Like an illicit, highly addictive opiate, TikTok ruins lives.
John Mac Ghlionn
John Mac Ghlionn
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John Mac Ghlionn is a researcher and essayist. He covers psychology and social relations, and has a keen interest in social dysfunction and media manipulation. His work has been published by the New York Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, Newsweek, National Review, and The Spectator US, among others.
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