(1) Fined by the FTC for $5.7 million for illegally collecting children’s data.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/27/us-government-fined-app-now-known-tiktok-million-illegally-collecting-childrens-data/

(2) Told moderators to suppress posts from "ugly" people to get new users.

Source:
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-users-discrimination/ https://twitter.com/cyberkutti/status/1256893289740943363

(3) Censors videos that do not please Beijing like HK protests.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing

It's a terrible fucking site, it has a lot of good on it but a lot more evil.

(4) Internal documents showed TikTok censoring topics that would anger China

Source: https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/internal-documents-showed-tiktok-censoring-topics-that-would-anger-china/articleshow/71292832.cms

(5) TikTok admits it suppressed videos by disabled, queer, and fat creators. But yeah, I’m sure they didn’t mean to.

Source: https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/tiktok-disabled-users-videos-suppressed.html

(6) Lawsuit claiming TikTok is secretly loaded with Chinese surveillance software. Who saw this coming?

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/tiktok-china-data-privacy-lawsuit-bytedance-a9230426.html

(7) Reddit CEO: TikTok is ‘fundamentally parasitic’

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/26/reddit-ceo-tiktok-is-fundamentally-parasitic/