TikTok star who makes living off Chinese-owned app reveals why US must force sale: ‘I am terrified of what I’m seeing’
NY Post
The House on Saturday voted to ban TikTok — and even some Americans who make bank on the Chinese-owned app believe its end can’t come soon enough, saying it’s become a cesspool of hate and misinformation.
Comedian and actor Zach Sage Fox, who earns his living in part by posting clips of his standup to over 1.1 million followers on TikTok, was sweating what the ban on the app could mean for his income in the hours after the Congressional vote to block the platform in the US or force its sale.
But as the company has faced accusations of promoting Hamas propaganda and turning younger Americans toward Islamic extremism following the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the social media influencer recognized the dangers of the massively popular video sharing platform poses.
“I am terrified of what I am seeing” on TikTok, Fox told The Post.
“In the last few months, in regard to the Israel-Palestine conflict, for all the biggest sources of misinformation, TikTok is just a gold mine,” he said.
“It seems like there is something happening in the algorithm that is very much trying to soil the West.”