By Shawn Lim

As TikTok is pulled into politics and faces bans by countries over privacy issues, it is in an unusual situation whereby it could have its meteoric rise stunted, for different reasons than any other platform before it.

There was a time when trouble for social networks simply meant not gaining sufficient user engagement, as the likes of Friendster, MySpace, Orkut, Google+ can attest. However, as a Chinese-owned social network, TikTok’s future has been thrown into doubt by an altogether more modern problem – geopolitical privacy concerns.

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Source: The Drum