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The Great 2026 TikTok Meltdown - A Dystopian Drama in Three Acts (and Where to Jump Ship)
TL;DR: Between an "immigration status" privacy scare, a billionaire-led corporate takeover, and "suspiciously timed" outages during real-world protests, TikTok has officially entered its Villain Era. If you’re tired of the drama, the exodus to apps like Skylight and UpScrolled is no longer a meme—it’s a movement.
Act I: The Privacy Policy That Wants to See Your Passport
Let’s start with the notification that ruined everyone’s Friday. TikTok users across the U.S. woke up to an in-app alert about a "Privacy Policy Update." Most people click "Accept" faster than they skip an ad, but the ones who actually read the fine print found a horror show.
The policy now explicitly states that TikTok may collect "sensitive personal information," including your racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, health diagnoses, sexual orientation, and—most controversially—citizenship or immigration status.
Is TikTok a Digital ICE Agent?
The internet immediately went int...
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Crowd-Sourced Queries | Your overall experience using AI
Welcome to the early release of Crowd-Sourced Queries. It is one of the coolest and most exciting things Huement is doing. What are Crowd-Sourced Queries? They are asking the general public a bunch of questions and then displaying the results, with some nice graphs (when appropriate. we dont want graphs just popping off).
We’ve all done it, the Question & Answer, the ole conversational back and forth. We like to keep it informal, form based, and nice packaged component. By giving out a simple link, such as this one: https://huement.com/interview/take/E3UB12 someone can quickly and easily answer a few questions. Quick, easy, just like, well, you know, forms.
The questions come in a few types, traditiona...