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So far, Project Texas appears to be mostly an exercise in geography, an exercise that seems well positioned to allay concerns about the Chinese government having access to Americans’ personal information. But it doesn’t address other ways China could weaponize the platform, such as tweaking TikTok algorithms to increase exposure to divisive content, or tweaking the platform to sow or encourage disinformation campaigns. Adam Segal, director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, told BuzzFeed News that the Chinese government’s influence on TikTok’s algorithms is a more pressing issue than data exfiltration. “I’ve never...
