The article highlights the contrasting approaches of different social media platforms in handling protests and user privacy. While applications like WhatsApp support encrypted communication for activists, TikTok has been criticized for censoring content related to protests. This has prompted the U.S. government to initiate a national security review of TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, due to concerns over data privacy and security. Additionally, the article mentions recent legal actions against Meta for allegedly monopolistic practices, illustrating ongoing concerns about competition in the social media landscape.
While our services, like WhatsApp, are used by protesters and activists everywhere due to strong encryption and privacy protections, on TikTok, the Chinese app growing quickly around the world, mentions of these protests are censored, even in the U.S.
U.S. government launched a national security review of TikTok owner ByteDance and its acquisition of Musical.ly, the platform that became TikTok.
The U.S. also launched action against Meta, alleging that it illegally maintained its social networking monopoly "through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct."
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