| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 13 hours ago | |||||||
> Tiktok was forced to separate itself into a chinese version and the non-chinese version by the US because we didn't want "da ccp" controlling tiktok No. TikTok was forced to put its data on American servers [1]. Douyin was launched in 2016 as musical.ly, and is unrelated to U.S. pressure. (EDIT: Douyin was launched in 2016, TikTok in 2017. Musical.ly was acquired in 2017 and merged into/basically became TikTok. TikTok has never been in China.) [1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-moves-us-user-data... | ||||||||
| ▲ | sureglymop 12 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
Musical.ly was not China only and I knew musical.ly before it was the predecessor of tiktok. From how I recall it, it had mostly American users. Was the split during the rebranding? | ||||||||
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