TikTok was never just a social media app. It was Information Warfare as Fires. A Chinese information warfare platform, and today, the United States took it off the battlefield.

In this video, I explain why information warfare is fires, not messaging, not persuasion, and not “propaganda” in the old Cold War sense.

Just like artillery or cruise missiles, information fires are designed to shape the battlefield.

And sometimes trigger real-world, kinetic effects

TikTok wasn’t dangerous because of teenagers dancing.
It was dangerous because it functioned as a real-time sentiment sensor and narrative targeting system, capable of micro-targeting populations at scale.

When Oracle took control of TikTok’s infrastructure, data, and recommendation pipeline, China lost something critical: feedback.
A fires system without feedback is blind.

This isn’t censorship.
This is counter-battery.

China doesn’t separate information warfare, political warfare, and military operations—they see it as one continuous battlespace. Removing a foreign fires platform before a crisis matters more than trying to shut it down after one starts.

This video breaks down:
What “information warfare as fires” actually means
Why TikTok fit PLA doctrine perfectly
How Oracle changes the equation
And why this was a quiet but meaningful U.S. victory