How a TikTok Campaign Reignited Calls for a U.S. Ban

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A House committee voted unanimously last week to pass a bill that would require TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to either sell the app to an American owner or effectively face a ban in the U.S. President Biden has also backed the effort, and said he would sign the bill into law, accelerating the latest push to block the app’s Chinese owners from accessing U.S. users’ data. The House could vote on the legislation as soon as this week. WSJ reporter Stu Woo tells host Cordilia James what that could mean for TikTok and why it’s the most serious attempt to separate the app from its Chinese owner yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So how do we get AI right?
0:02.0	Well, we need the right volume of data, the software to train it, and massive compute power, or...
0:10.0	Another one buys the dust.
0:12.0	Are you ready?
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0:21.0	helping generate better insights.
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0:30.3	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, March 11th. I'm Cordelia James for the Wall Street Journal filling in for Alex Oscela.
0:41.0	Coming up on today's show,
0:43.9	U.S. lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill
0:46.8	as soon as this week that could shake up Tik-Tok's future.
0:50.6	W.S.J. reporter, Stu Wu,
0:52.4	tells us how Tik-Toc is mobilizing users against the legislation, and
0:56.8	what could happen next.
0:58.8	And then, what is the technology behind IVF?
1:03.3	After an Alabama Supreme Court ruling made it front of mind,
1:06.7	we talked to W.S.J. reporter Amy Dr. Marcus
1:09.8	about what that court ruling means
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