AP Photo/Nick Wass
China built an internet parallel to our internet with copycat apps for the likes of YouTube and Twitter. However, as Chinese apps such as TikTok become mainstream, Silicon Valley companies are now looking to China for new ideas.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spoken about the risks of Chinese apps going mainstream, but is now taking a page out of China s book and stealing their ideas.
The knock-off, carbon copy, cheaper counterfeit mentality that typified China s industry and spurred its early development of social media, has come to the West and it looks an awful lot like Facebook.