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How much of a threat is TikTok?

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The tense competition between the US and China boiled over in Congress this week in a hearing over social media app TikTok and how it handles data. Members of Congress repeatedly voiced their concerns over the app’s ties to China and its impact on American youth. The Chinese government says US lawmakers who want to ban TikTok are just part of a “xenophobic witch hunt,” while for his part, TikTok CEO Shou Chew defended his company’s autonomy and security. Alex Stamos knows all about global online threats, having worked as Facebook’s chief security officer, and now running a team at Stanford researching all of this. He joins the show to discuss.   Also on today's show: Mike Chinoy, Author, “Assignment China”; financial journalist William D. Cohan  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amunborg. Here's what's coming up.

0:09.0

Chick-talk is a weapon.

0:11.0

By the Chinese Communist Party to spy on you, manipulate what you see and

0:14.3

exploit for future generations.

0:16.7

A confrontational hearing on Tik-Toc as tensions rise between the US and China, but is the social media app the real threat?

0:26.0

We get prospective from Facebook's former chief security officer Alex Stamos.

0:31.0

Then...

0:32.0

The assault on Tin onmen Square is now underway.

0:35.0

There has been gunfire, there are people dead,

0:38.0

there are people wounded in various places around Beijing.

0:41.0

From Tiananmen to today as China expands from autocracy at home

0:46.4

to growing assertiveness around the world, Correspondent Mike Chinoy has seen and

0:52.0

covered it all.

0:53.8

And then, I think on this latest round of Fed interest rate increases,

0:59.0

they got it just right.

1:00.6

In the US, the Fed raises rates as the world banking system faces a new crisis of

1:06.4

confidence. Veteran Financial journalist William Cohen joins Walter Isaacs. And welcome to the program everyone. I'm Michael Holmes sitting in for Christian Amman Poor.

1:30.0

Now the tense competition between the United States and China boiled over in Congress

1:35.8

in a hearing over the social media app Tik-Tok and how it handles data and information.

1:41.8

Tik-Tok is the most downloaded app in the world

1:45.3

with 150 million users in the US alone.

1:49.2

But on this issue, at least members of Congress agree, voicing their concerns over its ties to China

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