Since 2020, several governments and organizations have banned, or considered banning, the immensely popular
social media app TikTok from their staff’s devices.
With all these alarming bells ringing, we thought it might be handy to break down what we know and see if we can plot a sensible strategy from there. So, if your hair is on fire, extinguish it and consider this with a cool head.
If you prefer listening over reading, we covered this topic in a recent LinkedIn Live.
TikTok is an immensely popular social media platform that allows users to
create, share, and discover short video clips.
It's received explosive growth since it first appeared in 2017, and now it claims to have well over 1 billion users, an estimated 150 million of them in the US.
In 2020, India was the first country to ban TikTok, along with some 200 other Chinese apps that were all blocked from operating within the country.
The decision came two weeks after a Chinese military operation on India’s northern border led
to the death of at least 20 Indian soldiers.
This guide breaks down the potential problems with TikTok into 3 main categories:
The
data
The algorithm
The app itself
Let's check it out.