TikTok the chinese shadow

SYNOPSIS:

TikTok, young people’s favorite app, now has almost 1.6 billion users worldwide, and almost one in three of them in France. For many, it’s a simple streaming video feed, with dances, animals, songs and star influencers with millions of subscribers. But, above all, it’s the global success of China, owned by Byte Dance. A technological revolution whose content management system remains opaque, even to its moderators. An increasingly powerful platform, accused like other social networks of collecting our personal data. With one difference: it is suspected of passing this data on to the Chinese regime and influencing public opinion worldwide.

INFO:

Theme: Society
Format: 90′
Original title: TikTok, the chinese shadow
Director: Elsa Guiol
Streamer: France 5
Language: FR
Year of production: 2023
Produced by: Together Media & Babel DOC