Explaining The Timer on TikTok's Fate
What A Day
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The House is expected to vote Wednesday on a bill that could force the Chinese owners of TikTok to sell the social media platform or face a ban on U.S. app stores. Lawmakers say TikTok is a potential national security threat. The bill has bipartisan support in the House. Tech journalist Louise Matsakis explains why banning TikTok is one of the few issues lawmakers can agree on these days.
And in headlines: The House Judiciary Committee grilled Special Counsel Robert Hur over his investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents, an FAA report said Boeing failed dozens of audits, and Airbnb told hosts no more indoor security cameras.
Show Notes:
- Louise Matsakis’s newsletter “You May Also Like” – https://youmayalsolike.beehiiv.com/
- The Guardian: “Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing” – https://tinyurl.com/y56o6hnk
- Network Contagion Research Institute: “ How TikTok's Global Platform Anomalies Align with the Chinese Communist Party's Geostrategic Objectives” – https://tinyurl.com/ynsd9kyj
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 13th. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm Priyanka Arabindi. |
| 0:04.3 | And I'm Juanita Toler, and this is what a day |
| 0:06.3 | where last week's televised main event |
| 0:08.3 | might have been the state of the union. |
| 0:09.9 | But tonight, Juanita and I are streaming the Love is Blind reunion. |
| 0:13.8 | One, I need these hosts to actually prep and ask the right questions. |
| 0:17.0 | And two, what was that Tik-Toc video? |
| 0:19.0 | You sent me, Priaka. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm still shaking. |
| 0:21.3 | We are shook. |
| 0:22.0 | We're watching. We're tuning in, we're abandoning our |
| 0:24.6 | responsibilities as the host of this show, so sorry if you don't get a podcast tomorrow. |
| 0:28.0 | On today's show, Special Counsel Robert Herr got grilled by both parties for his report |
| 0:35.2 | on Biden's handling of classified documents. |
| 0:37.7 | Plus, Airbnb says no more security cameras indoors, like why were they inside in the first place? |
| 0:43.9 | Problematic. |
| 0:44.8 | Big yikes. |
| 0:45.6 | But first, the House is expected to vote today on a bill that could |
| 0:48.5 | force the Chinese owners of Tik-Tok |
| 0:50.8 | to sell the social media platform or risk a band from US app stores. |
| 0:55.0 | That's a huge deal for all the Doom-scrollers out there, but yesterday lawmakers took the issue very |
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