It was the exact same motivation under Biden, they just had the self-awareness to know that they needed to pretend.
I’m pretty sure under Biden, it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control, not bringing it under US billionaires specifically. Now it’s a political instrument of corruption and control, which is something different.
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
TikTok was controlled by a private company based out of Singapore, with investments from a host of international funds including both the US and China.
The “China is controlling our internet” narrative was always bullshit fear-mongering, fully disjoined from the actual business structure. What TikTok enjoyed that Facebook and YouTube and Reddit did not was a sufficient distance from US policymakers such that TikTok’s policies weren’t dictated by Western oligarchs.
That’s exactly what Biden (and then Trump)'s forced sale intended. Bring the US branch of TikTok under American control by awarding it to exclusively American financial interests.