Can the government ban TikTok?
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🗓️ 24 July 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:30.4 | 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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