Some politicians in Germany consider the app “a danger to our democracy,” says Roderich Kiesewetter, vice chairman of the Bundestag’s intelligence control committee and member of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), because it is an “important instrument” in China and Russia’s hybrid warfare.
Jens Zimmerman, a member of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, said that the government should consider at least banning the app on federal devices. This is the case for the EU institutions, for instance.
It’s so uncontroversial that tiktok is effectively banned in China - even ignoring spying, Douyin algorithm is significantly less harmful than Tiktok’s.
Tiktok is the ultimate Trojan horse and Douyin is proof of that.