Why Tiktok is selling Spinach in China and Opium in the West. Kind of.

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Tiktok is the Western version of a Chinese service called Douyin (that’s why the Tiktok logo sports a d!). UI & UX of those two services are pretty similar, but what is different is the content: Douyin has lots of really cool and often interesting, educational content (mixed with a bit of propaganda, of course), while Tiktok is full of trivial stuff — twerking teens and…