Bonus Episode; Stories of our times - Tik Tok and the data war

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A special extra episode for you from the daily podcast from The Times;

President Trump has ordered firms to stop doing business with social media giant TikTok over security concerns. Microsoft was the front-runner to buy the company, but now Twitter has emerged as a possible suitor. What has made the app so popular and so controversial? If you like this episode please rate and subscribe. Simply search for Stories of our times on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Guests:

Danny Fortson Sunday Times west coast correspondent.

Host: Manveen Rana.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Danny.
0:02.5	A little bonus for you.
0:04.1	I've been talking to the Stories of Our Times podcast, which is what you're about to hear.
0:09.2	And of course, you can subscribe to them at the Times and the Sunday Times.
0:12.7	And I will be back later this week with another episode of Danny in the Valley.
0:16.8	But in the meantime, please enjoy this one.
0:27.0	Okay. but in the meantime, please enjoy this one. Dame Judy Dench, Oscar winner, star of stage and screen, National Treasure,
0:33.4	and now TikTok legend.
0:37.2	Ma, what do you get if you cross a pig with a dinosaur?
0:40.3	Jurassic pork.
0:43.1	Oscar-winning stars do it.
0:45.5	Teenagers in their bedrooms do it.
0:48.1	Have you done it?
0:49.4	Have you joined TikTok?
0:51.3	It is addictive, and it's very, very easy to get sucked down the rabbit hole.
0:56.5	The app, which is spread like wildfire across the parched landscape of lockdown life,
1:02.0	bringing us dancing teens and comedians lip-syncing the words of politicians,
1:07.0	has now found itself at the center of a proxy war between China and the West.
1:13.6	Yeah, you can't divorce this from what is happening with the politics.
1:17.0	It just came together in this toxic mix, which culminated, of course,
1:21.0	with Donald Trump threatening to ban it outright.
1:33.4	You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times.
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