social networks

In August 2018, Chinese company ByteDance bought video startup Musical.ly and fused it with another app. The result was TikTok, the wildly popular short video app that’s now one of the most downloaded apps in the world. Today, the social network has more than one billion users, double that of Snapchat and Twitter combined, with TikTok stars making up to $5 million a year on the platform. Yet TikTok’s rapid rise has also led to…