I'm pretty anti-TikTok - but shouldn't we have some evidence - or any knowledge of who this material came from - before trusting a reporter from Forbes? I read

I'm pretty anti-TikTok - but shouldn't we have some evidence - or any knowledge of who this material came from - before trusting a reporter from Forbes? I read through the article - but I couldn't find any details on the source this reporter is citing. Worryingly - the author "held policy positions at Facebook and Spotify." Instagram is a major competitor to TikTok - so conflict of interest is pretty strong. As other posters pointed out - every major company tracks people. We've known about this type of behaviour for decades from big tech.