Could TikTok be banned?
Is the app a national security concern? And is time running out for TikTok?
In recent months pressure on TikTok has escalated over fears about how the app and its Chinese parent company ByteDance handle users鈥� data. The US has threatened to ban the app and two weeks ago the company was fined over 拢12m for misusing children鈥檚 data in the UK. So is the app a national security concern? And is time running out for TikTok?
Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker, journalist, Times contributor and author of TikTok Boom: China's Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media.
Host: Jenny Kleeman.
Clips: Channel 4 News, Sky News, Parliament TV, 7News Australia, 麻豆社 News, C-SPAN, AFP, TikTok, NBC News, TikTok/@bellapoarch, Old Town Road/Lil Nas X/Columbia Records, Blinding Lights/The Weeknd/XO/Republic Records, TikTok/@kazzledazzlesteponme.
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