They could buy data from Facebook, except that Facebook has limitation on what data they provide, not to mention Facebook doesn’t have an incentive to negatively affect the US (doesn’t mean their incentive to extract profit doesn’t lead to them damaging the US in other ways ) unlike companies that are owned by China. Facebook doesn’t want to end up banned in the US, nor considered a political ally to another country, and especially not China. With TikTok, China can directly influence what kind of information they extract, and what kind of information comes out from the app. Through Facebook there’s significantly more hurdles.
They could buy data from Facebook, except that Facebook has limitation on what data they provide, not to mention Facebook doesn’t have an incentive to negatively affect the US (doesn’t mean their incentive to extract profit doesn’t lead to them damaging the US in other ways ) unlike companies that are owned by China. Facebook doesn’t want to end up banned in the US, nor considered a political ally to another country, and especially not China. With TikTok, China can directly influence what kind of information they extract, and what kind of information comes out from the app. Through Facebook there’s significantly more hurdles.