{"id":70675,"date":"2025-01-17T23:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T23:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70675"},"modified":"2025-01-17T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T23:23:40","slug":"how-tiktok-grew-from-a-fun-app-for-teens-into-a-potential-national-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/17\/how-tiktok-grew-from-a-fun-app-for-teens-into-a-potential-national-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1wJ9Jf.img?w=768&amp;h=513&amp;m=6\" alt=\"TikTok\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If it feels like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">TikTok<\/a> has been around forever, that&#8217;s probably because it has, at least if you&#8217;re measuring via internet time. What&#8217;s now in question is whether it will be around much longer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/how-tiktok-grew-from-a-fun-app-for-teens-into-a-potential-national-security-threat\/ar-AA1xohyv?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=d0d42aca9cc945c0d6c00e7c6c0fbb2e&amp;ei=34\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>If it feels like\u00a0TikTok has been around forever, that&#8217;s probably because it has, at least if you&#8217;re measuring via internet time. What&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tik-tok.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70676,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70675\/revisions\/70676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}