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It Is 1 AM, And I’m Watching An Italian Man Make Sandwiches On TikTok

I should be sleeping. But…

Here’s what the Chinese government knows about me: I was up late last night in my Harlem apartment watching an Italian madman make sandwiches on TikTok. The popular app’s algorithm serves me a steady and addictive stream of short videos about things that are important to me: show tunes, baby goats…