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After allegations of plagiarism, Google removed Zynn clone TikTok.
The Chinese video app Zynn was removed from Google Play Store following charges of plagiarism and was a clone of TikTok, the highly-populated Chinese video app.
A number of professional TikTok users have said their content was uploaded without consent to Zynn, according to the report Wired is making this week.
Some say their accounts are fully cloned with profiles, names, images and months of backdated contents, which appear on Zynn. In some cases, these videos seem to have been downloaded to Zynn before the app even started in the US officially.
Zynn came to the top of the download charts and arrived in iOS and Android in early may. At the end of May it became the most downloaded free iOS app and was the top 10 in the Google Play Store. (The listing is now out of date on the Play Store.)
The app's prizes pay users to view Videos and recruit friends is part of this growth. The system's legitimacy is uncertain, as some users post payment videos, while others say they could not pay off their incentives.
Users earn $1 to subscribe, $20 to join the first person and $10 to five users thereafter. You can pay this cash or gift cards. Common Sense Media has called Zynn a 'pyramid scheme.' Non-profit media watchdog
A Zynn spokesman told the Financial Times that the firm used the money that advertisers could have paid to attract users directly.
"We did not want to pay big companies like Facebook or Google, so in place we paid our frontline users with the very same amount of money," the speaker said. "With a large number of users, our app will only have value and importance."
The same Zynn Spokesman told Zynn FT that the application was "plagiaristically" removed from the Play Store and admitted that it has "lapsed there" in that area. According to Zynn's Social Media reports , the company is "in contact with Google and working to fix this ASAP."
Google still needs to explain the removal of the app. Zynn's on the iOS App Store now. Both Apple and Google have received a comment from the Verge.
A long-term rivalry between his company parent Kuaishou and the parent company ByteDanza can retrace the story of Zynn's subsequent development.
Although the same Kuaishou video app is extremely popular in China and is only second to the Douyin app from ByteDance, ByteDance 's management with TikTok has yet to break through western markets.
The ongoing dispute among companies includes litigation and Chinese technology giants' financial support, which are concerned about the meteoric growth of ByteDance. Last December the information reported that Kuaishou received funding of 2 billion dollars from WeChat creator Tencent to "contain ByteDance threats."
Zynn is also targeted by US politicians, in addition to attracting the ire of Chinese rivals and the moderators from the Google Play Store. The regular criticizers of China's technology firms, Sen. Josh Hawley, urged the Federal Trade Commission this week to investigate Zynn, arguing that the applications are 'strengthening Chinese leadership to benefit American private relations,' and that it is not clear if their "current priorities are consistent with the interests of the U.S.'
