{"id":15451,"date":"2025-03-26T09:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/reflecting-on-tiktoks-role-in-society-as-new-ban-deadline-approaches\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:18:42","slug":"reflecting-on-tiktoks-role-in-society-as-new-ban-deadline-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/reflecting-on-tiktoks-role-in-society-as-new-ban-deadline-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on TikTok\u2019s Role in Society as New Ban Deadline Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Jan. 18, I was one of millions of Americans scrolling through TikTok when service for the all-you-can-binge video buffet suddenly halted just before a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/18\/technology\/tiktok-ban.html\" title=\"\">federal government ban went into effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was a breathtaking moment that had me in mourning. Where will I go now, I wondered, for my daily dose of Hollywood gossip, video game news and anime updates?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">TikTok, which is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance, and had run up against a legal deadline to find a U.S. owner or face a ban, came back to life the next day. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/20\/technology\/trump-tiktok-ban-delay-executive-order.html\" title=\"\">President Trump<\/a> then quickly signed an executive order extending the window for TikTok\u2019s sale to April 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With that new deadline fast approaching, the fate of TikTok, which claims more than 170 million American users, remains uncertain. But at least for now, a repeat of January\u2019s blackout appears unlikely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last month, Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/5180939-trump-considers-extending-tiktok-ban\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters<\/a> that he could extend the deadline again. And while ByteDance hasn\u2019t confirmed any plans to sell, Oracle, the data center company, and others have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/18\/technology\/oracle-tiktok.html\" title=\"\">emerged as potential suitors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The latest deadline offers an opportune moment to reflect on the app\u2019s role in society. Here\u2019s what I found.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-68d1b563\">TikTok is still the best short video app<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">TikTok started out 11 years ago as Musical.ly, an app for users to post lip-sync videos, but over time it evolved into a general-purpose video app where people could scroll through short clips of news and entertainment. It now has more than one billion users globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the last five years, as TikTok surged in popularity worldwide, Meta, Google and others produced clones that let users endlessly scroll through video clips. But <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/content\/gen-z-social-media-preferences\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">younger users still prefer TikTok<\/a> for watching short videos, according to a survey by eMarketer, a research firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The preference for TikTok may be linked, in part, to the quality of the product. Videos made on TikTok generally look better \u2014 clearer, more tightly edited and catchy \u2014 than videos produced with similar apps like Instagram\u2019s Reels. (Why drink a tepid cola when you can have classic Coke?) TikTok\u2019s tools, including the editing app CapCut, streamline production of videos for the app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For me, when TikTok was briefly down, switching to Reels felt maddening. Many users posted videos that felt incomplete, such as a video of sourdough bread that asked me to read the caption to learn how to bake the perfect loaf. Why not just explain it in the video instead of a caption written in tiny text?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meta, which owns Instagram, is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/19\/technology\/instagram-video-app-tiktok-ban.html\" title=\"\">playing catch-up<\/a> to TikTok\u2019s editing tools. An Instagram spokeswoman referred to the company\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DFBIzLAynIQ\/?igsh=aWE3dTV1ZHU4dWxj\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a> of Edits, a competitor to CapCut for editing Reels videos, which is expected to debut in the coming weeks. The tool will allow Instagram users to upload video in a higher resolution, which will improve picture quality, among other perks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">TikTok\u2019s secret sauce, which others have also not replicated, is its algorithm for determining what video people want to see next. Many have said in surveys that TikTok is more attuned to surfacing the types of videos they want to watch, about everything from meal ideas to video games, keeping them glued to their screens for hours a day.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-43f89da8\">Mental health concerns are mounting<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">TikTok\u2019s effectiveness at keeping people scrolling has been a topic of widespread concern among parents and academic researchers who wonder whether people could be considered addicted to the app, similar to video game addiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Studies on the topic are continuing and remain inconclusive. One, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1186\/s40359-024-01541-y\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">published last year<\/a> and led by Christian Montag, a professor of cognitive and brain sciences at the University of Macau in China, examined TikTok overuse. Very few people in the study, which involved 378 participants of various ages, reported feeling addicted to TikTok.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet broadly speaking, the consensus from multiple studies on TikTok and other social media apps is that younger people are more likely to report feeling addicted, Dr. Montag said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think children should not at all be on these platforms,\u201d he said about TikTok and similar apps. People\u2019s brains can take at least 20 years to mature and self regulate, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A TikTok spokeswoman said the app included tools for people to manage their screen time, including a new setting for parents to block TikTok from working on their children\u2019s phones during certain hours of the day.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-694af809\">It\u2019s a growing marketing platform for brands<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">TikTok has become a major hub for businesses to promote their products through posted videos and wares sold through the TikTok Shop, an in-app store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The company is working hard to make Americans aware of its impact on the economy, running a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/25\/technology\/tiktok-ban-ads.html\" title=\"\">splashy advertising campaign<\/a> in newspapers and billboards portraying itself as a champion of small businesses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A TikTok spokeswoman cited a study claiming that TikTok drove $15 billion in revenue for small businesses in 2023, a figure that should be taken with a grain of salt because TikTok commissioned the study. But it\u2019s clear just from scrolling through TikTok that many brands enjoy using it to spread videos demonstrating their quirky products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">I confess that TikTok videos prompted me to buy an overpriced tool for removing dog fur from car seats and an automatic scrubber for cleaning the kitchen sink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As for so-called creators, the influencers posting TikTok videos that often go viral, the platform is typically more useful for self-promotion than for making money, said Alyssa McKay, an actress in New Jersey with more than 10 million TikTok followers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A video that gets two million views could earn her a few dollars, she said. That\u2019s because TikTok pays only for views coming from people who do not already follow you, she added.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-29b3bd76\">It\u2019s still a national security concern<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">TikTok was banned in the first place because American government officials worry that ByteDance could <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/17\/us\/politics\/why-government-ban-tiktok.html\" title=\"\">share the data it has collected on its American users<\/a> with the Chinese government for espionage purposes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those concerns culminated in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/17\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-tiktok.html\" title=\"\">Supreme Court hearing in January<\/a>, where the Biden administration made its case for banning the app, citing concerns that TikTok could create a new pathway for Chinese intelligence services to infiltrate American infrastructure. But officials did not present evidence that TikTok was connected to such threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">TikTok has, however, been linked to smaller data scandals in the United States. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/22\/technology\/byte-dance-tik-tok-internal-investigation.html\" title=\"\">TikTok confirmed in 2022<\/a> that four of its employees had been fired for using the app to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/17\/us\/politics\/tik-tok-spying-justice-dept.html\" title=\"\">snoop on several journalists<\/a> in an effort to track down their sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A TikTok spokeswoman referred to a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/usds.tiktok.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> explaining how the app safeguards data of American users in a server system protected by Oracle, the U.S. database giant it teamed up with, to prevent unauthorized foreign access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Matthew Green, a security researcher and an associate professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, said the U.S. government\u2019s security concerns about TikTok were exaggerated since no major scandal had surfaced yet but also valid because the hypothetical harms could happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Plenty of apps made by American companies collect and share our information with data brokers, the firms that sell insights about us to marketers, including some in China. But TikTok, in particular, can collect sensitive data about Americans that would be useful for an adversarial government, such as their address books, Dr. Green added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re leaking so much information that you don\u2019t need TikTok to make things worse, but things do get worse when you have millions and millions of different phones running this app,\u201d Dr. Green said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News 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