Design by Zury Cordova By Alyssa Beaumont After the establishment of TikTok’s new U.S.-owned-and-operated branch, CNBC reported a 150% increase in users deleting the app. Many people have raised concerns over potential privacy infringements and censorship in favor of pro-U.S. propaganda. Such fears bear a striking resemblance to those that were levied against ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company.  In response to China’s rumored control over TikTok, Senator Mark Warner,

Design by Zury Cordova By Alyssa Beaumont Capital flight describes the rapid removal of assets or money from a country, typically in response to economic or political instability. TikTok is not a country — though its audience of 1.9 billion monthly users would make it the largest in the world — but it has become a hub for free economic and political discussions. Politicians and corporations recognized this massive global reach as an asset for power and scrambled to take contr