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@flexghost
"Citation: Trust me bro 🔮"
Obviously, the Facebook app has been analyzed by security researchers. It's a very common thread among their comments that they say, I've analyzed a bunch of social media apps and I've never seen anything like TikTok. Downloading a custom .zip to one particular user's phone and running binaries out of it is one good example. Offhand, it's hard to think of a purpose for that that isn't nefarious (the obvious possibility being to enable functionality for one particular person you want to spy on, while shielding that functionality from the community's ability to pick it apart in a security analysis like they'd be able to do if you sent it through the App Store to everybody.)
Yes, the exact purpose of my citations was that for that among many other reasons, TikTok is absolutely exceptional in how malicious it is, with reference to the ecosystem of other social media phone apps, which (as you do correctly note) is already terrible.
I'm not real interested in a continued back and forth about it. If you have citations other than "🔮" for what you're saying I'm happy to read them though.