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Re:Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels by beenBoutIT on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @01:28PM (#24063288)
Acquiring an app from a Chinese company and slapping the Microsoft branding on it without doing some sort of vetting would be absurd.
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Re:Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels by freehunter on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:41PM (#24064736)
What’s absurd is thinking Microsoft doesn’t have anyone who can read source code.
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Re:Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels by StavrosK on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:33PM (#24064626)
How is it different from acquiring a US app?
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Re:Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels by thiagoharry on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @11:33PM (#24067900)
According with the new cold war narrative, in this case we have an very evil code that spy people all the time. Forgetting that last time I checked, companies proven by leaked documents to really spy and pass information to the government was Microsoft, Instagram, Facebook and Google.
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