What is Tiktok?, Is Tiktok, it’s dangerous?
Is Tiktok, it’s dangerous
Tiktok is a social network for sharing short videos. The format pushes to be creative. Creators are free to choose the themes of their productions: dance, travel, media … a single constraint: content cannot exceed a maximum duration of 10 minutes.
What is Tiktok ?
The anti -end – The Law Commission and the Conference of Presidents gave their green light on Wednesday to open a senatorial survey on “the use of the Tiktok social network, its exploitation of data and its influence strategy »». But what is Tiktok ? Every day, the JDD antisèche answers a question not so stupid as that, to better understand the news.
Pierre-Henri Morin 11/02/2023 at 3:34 PM, Updated on 02/13/2023 at 11:03
Tiktok is a social network for sharing short videos. The format pushes to be creative. Creators are free to choose the themes of their productions: dance, travel, media … a single constraint: content cannot exceed a maximum duration of 10 minutes.
The application, launched by the Chinese firm Bytedance In 2017, there was an immediate success, especially with young people. The secret of his success lies in a innovative algorithm. The system generates Extremely personalized recommendations by analyzing the content with which the user interacts. These recommendations are presented on the application page of the application, called “for you”, which therefore differs for each account. A recipe that works. In 2022, she counts 1.2 billion monthly active users worldwide without taking into account the Chinese market.
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The parent company, Bytedance, has designed Tiktok as the international version of the Chinese application Douyin, Launched in 2016. This twin application is exclusively devoted to the national market. The features are similar but run on different servers, especially to respect the rules of Chinese censorship. It is not possible to download Douyin internationally, nor to use Tiktok in China.
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The exponential development of the application in recent years poses a security problem at the level of User personal data protection. Western leaders are wary of this brand which appears in their eyes as a Chinese strategic apparatus. Joe Biden prohibited American officials in early January from using the application on their phones. The debate finds echo in France. The Law Commission and the Conference of Presidents approved, on Wednesday, February 8, the opening of a senatorial commission of inquiry made up of 19 senators with the aim of objectifying “The use of the Tiktok social network, its data exploitation and its influence strategy”.
Is Tiktok, it’s dangerous ?
Several countries, including France, will ban their leaders from using Tiktok. They fear that this very popular app will be used for spying. And this is not the only problem posed by Tiktok … To understand, watch this video.
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Is Tiktok, it’s dangerous ?
Tiktok is A very popular app, especially among youth. It was created in China in 2016. We can share there Very short and often fun videos, With jokes, dance, singing … funny videos, you tell yourself that it is not worrying ? However, more and more people are wary of Tiktok. First, because this application is accused of making its users completely addicted. She spots our tastes To constantly offer us new videos that we will want to watch. There is everything … sometimes even shocking videos or that contain false information. What is also a problem is that this app recovers the personal data of its users. She can record their names, Their age, their location, what they do with their smartphone ..
Why is it worrying ?
Because all this info give a lot of power to those who hold them. Tiktok is not the only one to recover personal data. Other social networks, such as Facebook or Instagram, do the same. But, as this app belongs to a Chinese company, Some suspect China to want to use this information To spy them and use them against them. To protect themselves, some governments have therefore forbidden their politicians to use Tiktok.