Pattern Matching

TikTok Can’t Stay Out of Trouble

There’s no such thing as an apolitical social platform

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Welcome back to Pattern Matching, OneZero’s weekly newsletter that puts the week’s most compelling tech stories in context.

When the Chinese tech startup ByteDance bought the lip-syncing app Musical.ly for about $1 billion in 2017, the…