China Controls TikTok: Company Reveals Employees Can Decide What Goes Viral

The company claims it wields this power to “introduce celebrities and emerging creators to the TikTok community.”that the company’s startling admission came as a result of TikTok’s “Heating” button, which Forbes claims can be used to add particular videos to users’ “For You” pages, thereby boosting views by avoiding the algorithm that is supposed to be the driving force behind the platform’s experience.

Favazza claims that only “.002% of videos in For You feeds” are heated, which is another indication that TikTok doesn’t do it very frequently. But an internal document that ForbesAccording to the report, heated videos don’t have a label indicating that they have been promoted by TikTok. Instead, they resemble any other videos that the algorithm might have chosen for users, including the American teenagers that overwhelmingly favor the platform.

Furthermore, TikTok is not the only social media platform that artificially boosts video views. According to reports, Facebook knew it was displaying false view counts but delayed fixing it in order to draw advertisers and media companies to its platform. Mark Zuckerberg paid a $40 million settlement to advertisers in that case.Variety.

Attorneys believe that the settlement only accounts for 40 percent of the $100 million that they estimate advertisers “may realistically have been able to recover” in court. The basis of the lawsuit was over Facebook’s method of calculating video viewing time. Facebook had a policy to not count video views that lasted less than three seconds but by discarding shorter view views, the company arrived at higher average watch times.

all chinese companies must share their data when their government tells them.

Well... no shit!!!

Explains why Schiff would use TikTok. His buddies could make him go viral.

This goes without saying. Those people are called Software Engineers

OMG - you mean they're just like every other social media company. Who would have thought?

A big YA-THINKK

🤔

End tik tok it sucks 🤡😂😂😂

like adam schiff video plea for more funding i bet. nothing better to destroy one country from within by just making a video go viral, so cheap too. it's like how reagan destroyed the USSR but on another level.

Oh, like the ones that are harmful to the young and condition them to accept the abnormal by repetition and desensitizing them.

What? TikTok is manipulating its platform to promote inane and asinine thoughts and trends for Western users? I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

Anybody that has this app on your phone it’s just stupid at this point

Really, come on. Like none of us knew that. Look at Twitter and Facebook, they acknowledged that along time ago.

I knew it

They know exactly how to mind control Americans! China already owns the DNC

Lol. Breitbart bringing THE SCOOP about 5 years too late.

stop China’s TikTok

Big Guys Daddy CCP

This can be said of any social media company.

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