Serious questions: how is it manipulating people? To what end? Is there any proof of this?

I don't doubt the government could get them to do what they want. But what would it manifest as?

AHAHA bro. No offense, but you're just like a parrot, chirping off the same tired talking points that other misinformed people have said. You haven't added anything of value to the discussion at all, you've just increased the amount of lies and mistruths in the world.

If you really want to make that BOLD claim, you must provide actual proper evidence.

> TikTok is a tool of the CCP to manipulate the West.

If you're going to say such claims they must be substantiated with strong evidence. Do you have such evidence to substantiate this? 'Search it up' isn't evidence.

>https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/politics/tik-tok-black-lives-...

This was the easiest to find although I support the cause. The point is that cause is somehow divisive in the USA and promotes discord and in-fighting, which is objectively in the interest of the CCP.

The CCP is not mentioned once in the article, nor are its supposed plans for TikTok, nor are any attempts by TikTok to stoke political division. In fact, TikTok briefly (supposedly by accident) hid posts related to Black Lives Matter.

Presenting examples of social turmoil being shown on TikTok does not prove that TikTok was created to cause turmoil. Another explanation is that people simply post about social turmoil on social media, and one popular social media platform is TikTok.

Twitter had all of the same content about protests, etc. Does that mean Twitter is controlled by the CCP?