Friday, March 24, 2023
The 7
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🗓️ 24 March 2023
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Friday briefing: TikTok’s uncertain future; Trump investigation; protests in France; Blockbuster mystery; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Tic-Toc's future is uncertain. The app CEO was grilled in Congress for five hours yesterday |
| 0:09.1 | and Blockbuster might be headed for a comeback. I'm Jeff Pierre and this is the seven from the |
| 0:13.9 | Washington Post. It's Friday, March 24th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven |
| 0:18.8 | stories. |
| 0:20.8 | Tik-Toc CEO Sh Congress for five hours yesterday. |
| 0:28.0 | Lawmakers have national security concerns about the popular video app, |
| 0:32.0 | which is owned by a Chinese company. |
| 0:34.3 | And the questions got openly hostile. |
| 0:36.9 | Texas Representative August Fluger pressed Chu on his company's relationship with China. |
| 0:42.1 | Okay, so it is possible that the CCP, |
| 0:45.0 | under the offices of Bight Dance, |
| 0:48.0 | which is your parent company, which you get paid from, |
| 0:51.0 | has the ability to manipulate content that is being shared with |
| 0:54.3 | 130 million Americans yes? Congressman I want to make sure I'm understanding |
| 0:58.8 | all these questions I don't disagree with them that there are data risks in |
| 1:01.6 | general that's what I meant there's a big |
| 1:03.2 | data risk on us specifically are there engineers located inside mainland |
| 1:07.7 | China that work on Tik-Tok not Deutschein but Tik-Toc they are we are not the only |
| 1:12.1 | company that has that. |
| 1:13.0 | Support for a ban is growing among lawmakers and other Americans. |
| 1:18.0 | A Washington Post poll found that the biggest decider of who backs a Tik-Tok ban is whether or not they use the app. |
| 1:25.2 | But Biden administration officials said that banning Tik-Tok would probably require an act of |
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