The real concern is propaganda, surveillance is a safe and easy to understand cover story to sell to the public. I don't encounter too much political propagand

The real concern is propaganda, surveillance is a safe and easy to understand cover story to sell to the public. I don't encounter too much political propaganda on TikTok (lots of BLM stuff though), but the potency of the platform is obvious, and the userbase is overwhelmingly young people who may be more impressionable, idealistic, etc. Just one example of propaganda: https://www.tiktok.com/@jperkinsauthor https://www.tiktok.com/@jperkinsauthor Of course, this exists on other sites as well, but bundling ideas/memes into 30 second bite-sized morsels with video seems like a fantastic design for quick propogation throughout a network of human minds.