More than 2 billion USD – Mark Zuckerberg’s dark plan to ππΎππ 3 targets with one stone: Eliminating TikTok when it cannot be bought back or copied, while also making Elon Musk and Tim Cook ‘cry’
Recently, the US House of Representatives passed an order forcing Tiktok to cut ties with China or leave this market, which has had a strong impact on Tesla and Apple. The Washington Post emphasized that the Beijing government will likely take retaliation, targeting large American corporations that depend on this market.
In 2023, China accounts for 50% of Tesla’s sales and 20% of its production capacity while 95% of Apple’s iPhones, AirPods,Β Β MacsΒ Β and iPads are manufactured in China. This is also the market that accounts for 1/5 of Apple’s total revenue, about 74 billion USD in 2022.
Faced with this situation, both Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple CEO Tim Cook are extremely worried, while Meta (Facebook) boss Mark Zuckerberg is happy because there are not many activities in China and can Take advantage of opportunities when Tiktok is in trouble.
However, what few people pay attention to is that it was Meta (Facebook) who promoted the story of banning Tiktok, which was carried out by Former US President Donald Trump and then rejected by his successor Joe Biden.
According to eMarketer, Meta can account for 22.5-27.5% of advertising revenue from Tiktok, thereby earning more than 2 billion USD for Mark Zuckerberg in 2025. As for Google, this group can also get 15-20% if Tiktok is banned in the US.
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Business Insider (BI) said that since surpassing MySpace 15 years ago, Meta (Facebook) has grown explosively thanks to the formula of acquisitions, mergers and capturing competitors. They acquired Instagram and WhatsApp, adopted Story like Snapchat and most recently built Threads to compete with Twitter-X.
However, this formula is no longer useful for Tiktok.
In 2016, Facebook tried to buy Musical.ly but ended up letting ByteDance take over, subsequently creating one of the most formidable rivals for Mark Zuckerberg. Faced with this situation, Meta launched Reel as a product copying Tiktok but it did not create a big hit.
In 2022, after the number of active users on Meta decreased for the first time, Mark Zuckerberg had to sadly admit that they were threatened by Tiktok to take away market share.
Having difficulty implementing the old formula to crush Tiktok, Mark Zuckerberg has turned to a new way to defeat his opponent: politics.
“While our applications strongly protect privacy, Tiktok, a Chinese application, censors many free content, even in the US market itself. Is that a the Internet platform we want,” Mark Zuckerberg said at Georgetown University.
The increased spread of stories about Tiktok spreading false information and collecting user data causing insecurity in the US quickly paved the way for US politicians to get involved.
Even when the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused Meta of illegally using user data, the platform responded directly that the government was “allowing Chinese companies like Tiktok to collect data”. users right on US territory”.
This measure has been proven successful in India when Tiktok was banned, users quickly switched to Instagram Reels or Youtube Shorts.
Similarly, eMarketer believes that Amazon can also breathe a sigh of relief when Tiktok is banned because the e-commerce potential of this platform is too great and can threaten this empire.
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