Facebook rolled out its own version of social media rival TikTok in more than 50 other countries on Wednesday, embedding a new short-form video service called Reels as a feature within its popular Instagram app.
The debut comes days after Microsoft said it was in talks to acquire TikTok’s US operations from China’s ByteDance. ByteDance has agreed to divest parts of TikTok, sources have said, under pressure from the White House which has threatened to ban it and other Chinese-owned apps over data security concerns.
Seriously I’d like to see more EU based social networks. Have to also say the non-US social networks that I am on, have a lot less politics and polarised discussions. The only ‘problem’ maybe with the decentralised networks is that they are mostly text posts with image attachments (apart from maybe PeerTube and BitChute which are video), but that said, the discussions are around the content and are free of adverts, censorship, and algorithms that mess with what you see (block someone, and they’re gone).
See Facebook launches TikTok clone called Reels – TechCentral
Facebook rolled out its own version of social media rival TikTok in more than 50 other countries on Wednesday, embedding a new short-form video service called Reels as a feature in Instragram.