An open letter to TikTok PR: the company’s CFIUS woes won’t end well if it can’t tell a good story to the US public and lawmakers.
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Bytedance is taking over the attention economy
Bytedance is set to shove Baidu aside as the B in BATs, and is taking a bite out of Tencent’s ad revenue. Why? Its ads are just more effective.
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INSIGHTS | How monopolies rule the Chinese web
Tech monopolies in China aren’t a mirror image of Silicon Valley—rather than walled gardens, think competing fiefdoms and proxy wars.
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Beyond 996: a beginner’s guide to China big tech culture
There’s more to Big Tech cultures than 996. When you join, you pick a new name, and you might not be told who the bosses are.
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Bytedance adds fuel to India’s ethnic and religious fires
India has become the battleground for Chinese internet companies’ proxy war. Fake news is their chief weapon.
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Bytedance’s teen protection problem
How and when are content platforms like Bytedance’s responsible for protecting their underage users?
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We need a Toutiao for podcasts
Last month, I wrote an op-ed taking a critical eye to the globalization strategy of Bytedance, the Beijing-based parent company of ultra-popular Chinese news aggregation platform Jinri Toutiao. Riding a soaring valuation, Bytedance has stated its ambitions to apply their sophisticated AI-based recommendation engine to platforms aimed at overseas markets. In an ideal situation, this […]
