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She spent her inheritance sending money to TikTok Livestreamers. What started as a game turned into addiction. (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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She spent her inheritance sending money to TikTok Livestreamers. What started as a game turned into addiction.::Cindi White spent more than $25,000 on TikTok Influencers. TikTok's Live Matches have a dark side.

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[โ€“] hahattpro@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Instead of traveling the world, that lady instead waste a ton of money on Chinese manipulated show. Unbelievable.

[โ€“] galloog1@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Being somewhat in the know, I honestly don't think it's a propaganda tool for the CCP in it's current form and making that claim unsubstantiated doesn't help with credibility. What it is though is direct access to your devices as a spy tool and a massive machine learning data source that the CCP has unfettered access to. Every phone with the app installed is now a potential sensor.