America’s love-hate relationship with TikTok - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service

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US intelligence says China may use Tik Tok to interfere in the presidential election. Now Washington is debating a bill that would force the app’s Chinese owners to sell up or be banned, even as politicians like Joe Biden use TikTok as a campaign tool.
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So, how might Beijing use social media to undermine American democracy? And would selling or even banning TikTok do anything to stop it? Lyse Doucet speaks to BBC North America correspondent John Sudworth and Wired senior political writer Makena Kelly.
00:13 Introduction
01:55 TikTok's evolution
02:55 How TikTok united Republicans and Democrats
04:54 What a ban means for X and Meta
06:40 US fears over TikTok and China
08:30 US privacy regulation
09:46 Could ByteDance sell?
11:50 Could TikTok have done more?
13:14 How to check what you see online
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@BBCWorldService Ай бұрын

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@martinsamuda-cowan8099 Ай бұрын

They should be more concerned about the enemy within, fox news etc

@jennifervaughn1541 Ай бұрын

The same could be said about CNN and others like it

@theobserver9131 Ай бұрын

The GOP

@raymonddon8875 Ай бұрын

the states luv tik tok!

@BeachyKeen-ub9rg Ай бұрын

China? I think if they were that concerned about China they would not allow China to buy US land. Why no discussion about AIPAC and their lobbying?

@user-rd4du8iq1q Ай бұрын

China bought many American game company lol.

@shukrollahbatori9824 Ай бұрын

This is a cind od policy

@theobserver9131 Ай бұрын

I never understood why we let people, or companies from other countries BUY our land. That doesn't seem like a good policy to me.

@markmc5112 13 күн бұрын

America wants to corner the social media market that's the real reason... They want any chance to shut down tiktok

@miriamelkaid6470 Ай бұрын

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@hemantkumar-bq9qs Ай бұрын

great voice😊

@kylesmith8128 Ай бұрын

The "lots of people use it argument" could be used referring to opium and lots of other great things, too, in various times and places. TikTok is terrible for your brain.

@renatang7760 Ай бұрын

That argument keeps arguing when it got famous in US till now….

@johnjohn-jr1iz Ай бұрын

Kitchen

@tziomber4790 Ай бұрын

I still don't understand.. Is tiktok breaking into my data. Or what. An answer please from someone.

@BatsiraiMusuka Ай бұрын

Generally, all social media feeds you what interests you. That’s sounds fine, except human behavior is more fascinated with negative narrative (it is more visceral to our psyche). The combination of that and the resultant echo chambers leads to a lot of misinformation taking root as fact with little to challenge the narrative and balance it out. Old traditional media would allow for exposure of all sorts of debate… our current time is severely lacking that counter narrative to balance out what people are consistently exposing themselves to. People are no longer taking into account dialogue from people with differing views to themselves. This creates extremes in polarization. It’s really something of a global problem… but the States with its bi-party system, perhaps is much more primed for the polarization than most. At least, that’s my understanding. By the way all social media (including western ones) do this. But perhaps TikTok leans more into feeding and incentivizing viewers into more of what they like. Personally, (on all my social media) l try “train” my digital profile by deliberately viewing a wide variety of material (including some things which l myself do not necessarily subscribe to).

@justdudu1715 Ай бұрын

TikTok的母公司是字节跳动，一家由中国共产党控制的公司，而中国共产党是一个致力于毁灭民主社会的组织，TikTok的用户数据数据完全被中国共产党控制，它能用这个工具推送其想传播的内容，很多人是意识不到的

@jasonc_nguyen9113 Ай бұрын

The china gov can acess into user Tiktok's data

@kylesmith8128 Ай бұрын

TikTok owns your data, it is easy for them to access. The Chinese Communist Party owns all Chinese businesses, so it takes an e-mail maybe to access your data. Check out "Jack Ma."

@raymonddon8875 Ай бұрын

i cant live w/o my tik tok.

@HalatReformer Ай бұрын

Myself sp raj from Bast(i UP )India #@Halat Reformer

@shivamkushwaha7757 Ай бұрын

Learn from India what we have done to tik tok😂

@user-uy9zm8sf2y 4 күн бұрын

No thanks we live in the free world with real free speech lol not like india where free speech don't exist

@davedupond1231 21 күн бұрын

They should ban Tick Tock, Instagram, Facebook and Only fan TODAY.

@jasonc_nguyen9113 Ай бұрын

must to ban the trash Tiktok app

@elenafeliciana4603 Ай бұрын

and INS, FB, Twitter, tooooooo

@dragonjpt1195 Ай бұрын

American hypocrisy

@jasonc_nguyen9113 Ай бұрын

why youtube, fb, twitter apps.....can't be used in china, idxot?

@pavelkrstev1884 Ай бұрын

Tik tok CEO should move to Independent country,who has no security treaties with anyone.Qatar or may be next years Irane.

@AmberyTear Ай бұрын

It's a good decision to ban it but other similar sites must be regulated so they don't rely on short attention spans and gambling-like addictive mechanics.

@markmc5112 13 күн бұрын

America wants to corner the social media market that's the real reason... They want any chance to shut down tiktok

@hejolin6372 Ай бұрын

Someone paid to take down it.

@jasonc_nguyen9113 Ай бұрын

Why KZfaq, Fb, Twitter apps.....Can't Be Used In china ???????????????????

@elenafeliciana4603 Ай бұрын

of course, can use these if you pay VPN

@LxWorix Ай бұрын

Their database is not in China while Apple bulid a new iCloud database in China.

@raymonddon8875 Ай бұрын

i need help... i cant stop watching tik tok.

@yukaifeng9155 18 күн бұрын

I'm in China now, of course, you can use these social media but you need to connect VPN before using that social media. I'm not clear why we can't easily use it, maybe the Gov.

@javidking63 Ай бұрын

Blame the western spirit of genocide.

@EnjoyMoto Ай бұрын

Tiktok is cancer.

@cellb2619 Ай бұрын

so as Facebook, Snapchat, twitter(X) etc.

@user-rd4du8iq1q Ай бұрын

@@cellb2619 TikTok can call people to protest today, it can call people to rebel in the future too.

@jasonc_nguyen9113 Ай бұрын

@@cellb2619 why youtube, fb, twitter apps.....can't be used in china, idxot?

@ShahidAli-vx4nl Ай бұрын

What happened to the Project Cambridge Analytica of Meta while we are chasing Tik Tok ? How long are we going to look for needle in the hay stack while the blue whale passes by in clear day light?

@markmc5112 13 күн бұрын

They only want it gone so a Western platform can dominate in its place