Stupid with fright? The former Kazakh Buddhism said that TikTok was an opium for China to retaliate against the West

Source: Global Times New Media Recently, a senior scholar who once served as a professor of history in Harvard, Oxford and other famous western schools and served in the Hoover Institute of Stanford University in the United States wrote a very shocking article for Bloomberg.
This article claims that the Chinese enterprise "ByteDance", which is being punished by the US government in the name of endangering "national security", and the "American version of Tiktok" application it has developed, have caused more harm than "endangering US national security".
It is not only China's "opium" to the West, but also China's "imperialist ambition".
The author of this article is Niall Ferguson.
According to the introduction given by Bloomberg, he once taught history at Harvard University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom, two famous universities in the western world.
At present, he is a senior researcher at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University in the United States.
(The screenshot is from an article published by Ferguson on Bloomberg.) However, this great professor with an academic background of "eminence" showed a more crazy and absurd view than American politicians in his article on TikTok published on Bloomberg's website yesterday.
He believed that TikTok was not a threat to the national security of the United States, but China's "opium" to retaliate against the West, and demonstrated China's "imperialist ambitions".
(The screenshot is from an article published by Ferguson on Bloomberg.) Of course, Ferguson, who has been struggling in the top western academic circles for many years, did not attack China like President Trump or Secretary of State Pompeo, but gradually outlined this absurd logic chain in his articles.
For example, he first said that he was an old-fashioned Internet user who hardly used social software such as Facebook and Instagram.
But after experiencing TikTok himself, he found that this app developed in China was like opium, especially for young people in the United States.
Then, by analyzing why TikTok was successful in the United States and attracted a large number of young people, "spread in the United States like COVID-19", he led to his second logic - that is, in addition to the fact that people like pictures more than words, and TikTok is easy to operate, "even an idiot can use it", it is also because TikTok "AI based algorithm" - TikTok will collect user data, Customize personalized content for users.
(The screenshot is from an article published by Ferguson on Bloomberg.) Next, based on TikTok's "AI algorithm", Ferguson drew out the core point of his article, that is, TikTok is an "opium" that poisons young Americans, and it is also an "imperialist ambition" that Chinese communists intend to rule the world.
In terms of "opium" theory, his argument is not new.
He said that because "AI algorithm" caters to users, and users can give whatever they want, it is no less harmful than "cocaine".
In addition, he blames TikTok for some illegal elements in the United States who use TikTok to harass young people and women