> TikTok's audience in the US is politically liberal
If anything, then that audience is a very interesting target for either:
- trying to convert them to more conservative ideas, by feeding them with messages that play on their feelings
- trying to get them to not vote, by discouraging it
- trying to incite violence against the other group in order to destabilize the country
Especially the last one is interesting for China. The second one has been (by their own word) effectively used by Cambridge Analytica in Trinidad to influence an election by discouraging young people to vote [0]. Imagine if there was an app, mostly used by impressionable teens and young adults, and you had unlimited access to the users of that app.
If anything, then that audience is a very interesting target for either:
- trying to convert them to more conservative ideas, by feeding them with messages that play on their feelings
- trying to get them to not vote, by discouraging it
- trying to incite violence against the other group in order to destabilize the country
Especially the last one is interesting for China. The second one has been (by their own word) effectively used by Cambridge Analytica in Trinidad to influence an election by discouraging young people to vote [0]. Imagine if there was an app, mostly used by impressionable teens and young adults, and you had unlimited access to the users of that app.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omc-5zj70M0