TikTok releases new app for Apple Vision Pro spatial computer

TikTok has released a new “spatial” app for the Apple Vision Pro spatial computer. Smart users will avoid this societal cancer like the plague it is.
TikTok via X:
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Exciting news! TikTok is now available as a new spatial app on @Apple Vision Pro. Experience your For You feed in an entirely new way through this immersive content view…

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Amnesty International:
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Technical research in partnership with the Algorithmic Transparency Institute and AI Forensics using automated accounts showed that after 5-6 hours on the platform, almost 1 in 2 videos were mental health-related and potentially harmful, roughly 10 times the volume served to accounts with no interest in mental health.
There was an even faster “rabbit hole” effect when researchers manually rewatched mental health-related videos suggested to “sock puppet” accounts mimicking 13-year-old users in Kenya, the Philippines and the USA.
Between 3 and 20 minutes into our manual research, more than half of the videos in the ‘For You’ feed were related to mental health struggles with multiple recommended videos in a single hour romanticizing, normalizing or encouraging suicide.
TikTok’s very business model is inherently abusive and privileges engagement to keep users hooked on the platform, in order to collect evermore data about them. It unequally applies protections for users around the world.

Brian Fung for CNN:
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[A] former employee of ByteDance, TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, has outlined specific claims that the Chinese Communist Party accessed the data of TikTok users on a broad scale, and for political purposes.
In a court filing this week, the former employee of ByteDance, Yintao Yu, alleged that the CCP spied on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong in 2018 by using “backdoor” access to TikTok to identify and monitor the activists’ locations and communications.

U.S. Senator Jim Risch (:
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has infiltrated America through an app: TikTok. Under the façade of a simple video-sharing platform, TikTok poses one of the greatest long-term threats to the health, safety, and privacy of millions of Americans.
TikTok attracts more than 150 million American users – nearly 45 percent of the U.S. population – and most notably, children as young as 13 years old. Like other social media platforms, users of all ages willingly relinquish their sensitive information—such as search histories, locations, messages, photos, videos, and more. TikTok is different because its parent company, ByteDance, is based in China, and the Chinese government could seize and exploit U.S. users’ data at any time. Numerous whistleblowers have confirmed CCP officials have access to this information, and it is readily available for blackmail or espionage. With control of the app and its sophisticated algorithm, the CCP can target and harass American users in its quest for intelligence, as well as to promote dangerous government propaganda or spread harmful ideas. It is no wonder three in five Americans believe TikTok poses a national security threat.
When logged in, all TikTok users are subject to an algorithm that hooks their interest with sensational content of the app’s choosing. While some of the content is benign, many children are fed a digital diet of content linked to dangerous behaviors, like eating disorders and self-harm.
There is no question American values do not align with those of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. failure to act could very well result in our own battle to correct the CCP propaganda spread by an app that is nothing more than a thinly-disguised indoctrination machine.

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MacDailyNews Take: Smart people do not use or allow their children to use TikTok on any platform.
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