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Can the government ban TikTok?

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

How the Trump administration could ban the popular social media app and the consequences for its users. Featuring: Palmer Haasch (@haasch_palmer) Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy) Links: TikTok creators are worried about losing their followings as the Trump administration considers banning the app How the Trump administration could ‘ban’ TikTok Host: Allegra Frank (@LegsFrank), guest host of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Always read the label. So I logged on to Twitter one afternoon while I was at work and I saw a tweet from one of my favorite

0:47.1

Tik-Tok creators kind of freaking out.

0:50.1

Palmer Hosh is a culture reporter for Business Insider and a Tik-Toc expert.

0:55.0

All of their views and all of their likes on the platform had completely disappeared.

1:01.0

And as Palmer well knows, Tik-Tok is all about the numbers. The number of

1:04.7

followers you have, how many views, and the number of likes on your videos. More

1:09.1

likes and followers mean more influence, more connection.

1:13.0

So I logged on to Tik-Tok, then I started to go on to individual users pages and saw that they

1:19.6

had no views, which did seem pretty particularly weird, and that all of their light

1:25.1

counts had disappeared. It looked like it was happening cross-platform as well.

1:29.1

And what Palmer saw among Tik-Tock users, pure panic.

1:35.9

Yo, John, don't you have like 15 million flowers on Tik-Tok?

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