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Fears about TikTok’s policy changes point to a deeper problem in the tech industry

  • Written by Casey Fiesler, Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Fears about TikTok’s policy changes point to a deeper problem in the tech industryUsers' fears about TikTok might be a bit off the mark, but nonetheless justified.Noushad Thekkayil/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A little over a year after TikTok temporarily went dark in the United States and users were greeted with a message explaining that “a law banning TikTok has been enacted,” those same U.S. users opened the app to...

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