Hoekman points out that Western tech giants such as Facebook are also under constant fire for privacy violations. We are not deaf to the criticism of TikTok, but I think it is too easy and perhaps unwise to do nothing with it. ‘It is a fast-growing company that is extra under a magnifying glass. He found TikTok’s response to the removal of the Uighurs video sounded “like an easy excuse.” But he also wants to nuance the negative image. Gert-Jaap Hoekman of NU.nl understands the scepticism in part.
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And in the same country, the company has been sued for allegedly sharing user data with China.ĪLSO READ: The Best Car Choice for Journalists – How to Find the Perfect New Car TikTok was fined millions in the US because it collected data from children under the age of 13.
Period.’ Earlier, The Guardian revealed that TikTok censored content on topics like Hong Kong in the past.Īnd then there’s the privacy policy. “We’ve never been asked by the government to do that and we wouldn’t do it. Bytedance stated that it was a mistake and that the company would never censor topics sensitive in China. Recently, a video was removed in which an American girl denounced the situation of the Uyghurs, an oppressed ethnic minority in China. ‘What are the risks to our privacy? Shouldn’t we fear censorship from a Chinese app that wants to dominate video journalism? “Of course, you have to consider whether you can use TikTok to reach your audience, but there are more important questions, which I don’t think are being asked enough,” media professor Julie Posetti told SVDJ this week. And china’s human rights violations and lack of press freedom are amply documented. But there’s also a lot of criticism of TikTok, and that largely focuses on the fact that the app is owned by a Chinese company: Bytedance. In the US, there are already many more media on TikTok: including The Washington Post (315,000 followers) and The Daily Show (61,000 followers). ‘We don’t rule it out, but the plans aren’t concrete yet either.’ Criticism ‘Every new platform where our target group resides is interesting, but at TikTok, we still have to explore how we can be of value there’, says editor-in-chief of both platforms Karina ter Horst. NOS Stories and NOSop3, the biggest online news providers for young people, have not yet ventured into TikTok. Hoekman: ‘For the time being, it’s hit or miss. Others are only a few thousand, such as a meme video with an editor in Sinterklaas outfit. A post about a ghost village in Groningen reached 724,000 users. On the account, funny videos from the editors and more serious content alternate. We are now exploring what we want to do with is aimed at teenagers, just like the eponymous account on Instagram. ‘When TikTok came up in the newsroom, I said: go and try something. Why does a news site like NU.nl go here? ‘We are always curious about what new platforms can bring us, how we can bind a new target group to us’, says editor-in-chief Gert-Jaap Hoekman.
An unfathomable culture for most people over twenty. They upload videos with dance, singing, playback, sketches, and especially a lot of memes as their main components. The app has 800 million users, mostly teenagers, of which 3.5 million are in the Netherlands. It says something about how big the two-year-old TikTok already is. “It’s a bit stereotypical to automatically assume that TikTok is reporting to the Chinese government.” So, if your news organization decided to leverage TikTok as a news channel, click here to learn more.Īfter barely a month, the TikTok account of NU.nl already has more than ten thousand followers – and that with only ten videos. News media are cautiously experimenting with spreading the news on TikTok, a Chinese video app that has been criticized for its privacy policy and alleged censorship.
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