[D] Could TikTok be gathering information about user that could influence US politics?

I have never worked in ML for a company with the user base like TikTok. I am wondering if how Facebook was able to sell data to Cambridge Analytica about the US population that could influence elections, would it be possible, since TikTok has algorithms that presumably learn about a users preference, that they could have information about the US voting population and what resonates with them that could influence elections?

Does anyone know if this was talked about in …

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