[HN Gopher] Former ByteDance exec claims company used bots to in...
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       Former ByteDance exec claims company used bots to inflate TikTok
       engagement
        
       Author : firstSpeaker
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2023-05-13 15:48 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.engadget.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.engadget.com)
        
       | CharlesW wrote:
       | Fake engagement and stolen content are endemic to all social
       | media services, so I'm having a hard time getting outraged about
       | TikTok specifically. Is there anything interesting about this
       | that I'm missing?
        
         | Capricorn2481 wrote:
         | Maybe it's just because TikTok is being unfairly singled out,
         | but I find the attitude of "they're just doing whatever other
         | social media companies do" pervasive and dangerous. I think we
         | can hate on TikTok and Facebook.
        
       | justsomehnguy wrote:
       | > used bots to inflate TikTok engagement
       | 
       | Just like Reddit and HN? This is not a news for many.
       | 
       | > Notably, he claims that ByteDance engineers stole popular
       | content from apps like Instagram and Snapchat and put the videos
       | onto TikTok
       | 
       | Also not a news but there is always a question of who really owns
       | the content. And it's not the ones who originally made it, that's
       | for sure.
        
         | anaganisk wrote:
         | There is Ton of TikTok content always posted on reddit. And
         | most of the content is just recycled, from different platforms.
        
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