Commentary
As is well known, TikTok is a national security threat because communist China has laws that give it access to the data of its almost 1.7 billion global users. Yet naive teenagers around the world download the app on their smartphones, thirsty for the latest kid craze trend. TikTok’s algorithm then channels these users more deeply into their random and sometimes destructive whims.
The most recent TikTok trend, for example, is playing dead from drinking a McDonald’s “Grimace” purple milkshake. Yet with almost 1.4 billion joint views on TikTok, #grimaceshake and #grimace underline the adage “all publicity is good publicity” (so soon after Bud Light proved it wrong)….