TikTok's daily average U.S. app uninstalls have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared to the previous three months, Sensor Tower told CNBC.

TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.

The short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.

    • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Tbh I learned a lot about other cultures through tiktok and recently the US have proven that no matter how much chest pounding about freedom they do, they can be just as authoritarian as any other, even ignoring the invasion of other countries, literally murdering their citizens in the streets and abusing women and minorities, so the app being owned by a Chinese company was not really as big of an issue as others have made it out to be.

      Now that ownership has changed, there’s an active suppression of american sensitive topics on the platform, so that’s already a visible downgrade.

      I wish someone more neutral could offer a real alternative that people would jump on.

      • bearboiblake@pawb.socialEnglish
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        43 minutes ago

        mate… the US is by far the most evil country on the international stage, the whole china scare stuff was the US telling everyone what they’ve been doing to US-owned social media all along… this is nothing new or surprising, if you’re just now waking up to this reality I’m sorry you’ve been asleep for so long, but I’m sorry to let you know this is gonna get worse before it gets better. The only chance the US has of avoiding falling deeper into fascism is to have a socialist revolution.

    • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
      101·
      5 hours ago

      Not surprising, since you’d need tp be willfully ignorant to have used tiktok when it first came out with all the privacy concerns even back then with the app doing weird things.

      And those who use it despite that are pretty addicted to the content on it. They in the same category as those that continue to use twitter.