It’s no secret that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg sees the social media app TickTalk as a threat, which is gaining popularity faster than his company’s applications.
Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly said that TuckTuck’s data collection and censorship policies pose a threat to American democracy.
At a time when Tik Tak is fighting for its survival in the United States, it seems that Mark Zuckerberg has played a key role in creating the current situation for this Chinese app.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, during a private meeting with President Donald Trump in October last year, Mark Zuckerberg discussed the threats to US institutions from Tik Tak and other Chinese internet companies.
The report also said that the founder of Facebook had spoken to Republican Senator Tom Cotton about TuckTuck, who wrote a letter to the National Security Review about TuckTuck in October last year.
In November last year, Mark Zuckerberg also met with Senator Josh Howale, who called for the app to be banned on all federal devices.
Last month, Kevin Meyer, CEO of TuckTalk, targeted Facebook, saying the company should compete with its competitors in the open instead of targeting the app in the guise of patriotism.
He said that Facebook has introduced another copycat product rails because the full copy of its tick talk failed very quickly, but our focus and energies are on healing and open competition, not on our competitor Facebook. Like a deceptive attack that seeks to destroy our presence in the United States in the guise of patriotism.
Tik Tak is currently one of Facebook’s few major competitors with over 100 million users in the United States alone.
The app has taken young people away from Facebook’s apps, and if tick-tock is banned in the United States, Facebook will benefit the most, so Mark Zuckerberg’s campaign against it is not unbelievable.
Interestingly, a report earlier this month stated that Mark Zuckerberg had expressed “concern” about the impact of a possible US embargo on Tik Tak.
According to a BuzzFeed report, Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook employees that he was “extremely concerned” about the impact of the US ban on TikTak.
“I think it’s going to be a very bad precedent on a long-term basis and it needs to be handled very carefully, whatever the solution, I’m very concerned, because others on this issue,” said Mark Zuckerberg. There will be long-term effects in the countries.
On the other hand, in view of the possible ban, Chinese app features such as Instagram Reels were first introduced worldwide.
After that, it started testing a similar feature on Facebook’s main app.
According to a report by TechCrunch, Facebook has confirmed that it is testing short videos in the main Blue app (Facebook app) in India.
India is Facebook’s largest market, and the testing of short videos there is understandable because tick-tock talk is banned there.
In its current form, a section is being allocated in the newsfeed for these short videos, and at the top there will be a Create button, which when clicked will launch the Facebook camera and users will be able to browse the videos.
“We are always testing new creative tools to find out how people want to express themselves, short videos are a very popular format and we want people to create content on Facebook,” a Facebook spokesperson said. And want to provide a new experience to share.
It may be recalled that US President Donald Trump had issued an executive order on August 6 this month giving Tik Tak a respite to sell its US assets to another US company in the next 45 days.
The presidential decree stated that if Chinese applications were not sold to a US company within the next 45 days, they would be banned in the United States.
TuckTalk was given a deadline of September 15, 2020, but later on August 16, the Trump administration extended the deadline by another 45 days.
A new order issued by the US president on August 16, citing national security concerns, instructed Byte Dance to sell its business in the United States to a US company within the next 90 days.
Microsoft, Apple, Twitter and Oracle have also expressed interest in buying TuckTalk’s US assets after the US President issued an executive order banning TickTalk.
This was followed by a court hearing on August 24 against the proposed ban by Tik Tak.
According to TuckTalk, the lawsuit challenged US President Donald Trump’s August 6 executive order, saying “such a tough decision was made without any evidence and without proper procedure.”
The company said in a statement that it did not agree with Tik Tak as a threat to national security and that the Trump administration ignored all steps taken by the social media app to address the concerns.
According to the statement, the company wants to prioritize negotiations over litigation, but it feels its hands are tied.