Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.

Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand.

Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.

From startups to scaleups, online, in person, and on the go. Shopify is made for

entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.

From KQED.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. If you need a TikTok refresher, it's the addictive video sharing

platform powered by an algorithm that predicts and auto feeds the next video you'd like to see

based on the ones you've just lingered on. And as Forbes investigative reporter Emily Baker-White

tells us, TikTok became more visited than Google in 2021 and amassed more than a billion global users by 2024.

Now, the White House says a group of American investors and allies of the president will take control of TikTok's U.S. operations from its Chinese parent company.

So, listeners, how does that make you feel?

How do you use TikTok?

866733-6786 is the number to call.

Again, 866733-6786.

You can post on our social channels at KQED Forum or email forum at KQED.org.

For more on the deal or what we know about the deal so far,

I'm joined by Emily Baker-White,

whose new book is called Every Screen on the Planet,

The War Over TikTok.

Emily, welcome to Forum.

Thanks so much for having me.

...