Has China Officially Deployed [Part of] Its Digital Arsenal?
Posted by freedomforall 2 days, 19 hours ago to Technology
Excerpt:
"TikTok’s ‘Blackout Challenge’ encourages the app’s young users to asphyxiate themselves until they lose consciousness, which led to the death of a 13-year old California boy in February of this year.
A 15-year old in Oklahoma died from the ‘Benadryl Challenge’. Concussions and other serious injuries have resulted from the ‘Skullbreaker Challenge’ where kids ‘prank’ others by kicking their legs out from under them as they jump.
Curiously, Chinese teens haven’t succumbed to the same contests. Instead, viral math problems challenging users’ problem-solving skills regularly trend on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok.
One popular influencer is a 12-year-old girl who has gone viral for teaching college-level math, explaining complex problems in a simplified manner.
Last week, we got another look at how TikTok figures into China’s guerrilla economic warfare arsenal.
Chinese influencers began pointing American consumers toward a new app: DHgate— a Beijing-based e-commerce platform that sells items directly from the Chinese factories which manufacture brand-name goods.
Their pitch: why pay $120 for name-brand yoga pants when the same exact item, just without a brand label, can be yours for $15?"
"TikTok’s ‘Blackout Challenge’ encourages the app’s young users to asphyxiate themselves until they lose consciousness, which led to the death of a 13-year old California boy in February of this year.
A 15-year old in Oklahoma died from the ‘Benadryl Challenge’. Concussions and other serious injuries have resulted from the ‘Skullbreaker Challenge’ where kids ‘prank’ others by kicking their legs out from under them as they jump.
Curiously, Chinese teens haven’t succumbed to the same contests. Instead, viral math problems challenging users’ problem-solving skills regularly trend on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok.
One popular influencer is a 12-year-old girl who has gone viral for teaching college-level math, explaining complex problems in a simplified manner.
Last week, we got another look at how TikTok figures into China’s guerrilla economic warfare arsenal.
Chinese influencers began pointing American consumers toward a new app: DHgate— a Beijing-based e-commerce platform that sells items directly from the Chinese factories which manufacture brand-name goods.
Their pitch: why pay $120 for name-brand yoga pants when the same exact item, just without a brand label, can be yours for $15?"
