Zuckerberg's TikTok Misunderstanding Threatens Facebook's Future

Leaked audio reveals Mark Zuckerberg views TikTok as merely an Explore Tab, missing its true nature as a new form of premeditated social entertainment.

01 Oct 2019 • 1 min read

Leaked audio from an internal Facebook meeting reveals that CEO Mark Zuckerberg fundamentally misunderstands the threat posed by TikTok. He describes the rapidly growing video app as essentially an expanded version of Instagram's Explore Tab, showing a lack of comprehension regarding how users actually engage with the platform.

This mischaracterization is alarming because TikTok represents a completely different form of social entertainment rather than the casual lifelogging that defines Instagram. While Instagram features haphazard Stories and simple selfies, TikTok content is highly premeditated and carefully storyboarded, making it a unique core social feed that Facebook struggles to compete against.

Facebook's inability to grasp this distinction is already hurting its efforts to fight back, as evidenced by the dismal performance of its TikTok clone, Lasso. While Lasso sees just 425,000 installs since its launch, TikTok boasts a staggering 640 million installs outside of China during that exact same period, proving that treating TikTok as just another Snapchat Stories to crush is a dangerous miscalculation.

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