Is TikTok a Secret Threat to America? With Scott Galloway

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Professor Scott Galloway joins Jon to make the case that TikTok is unlike any social media platform we’ve ever seen. Overnight, TikTok became the world’s most visited website and now, Scott argues, it’s powerful data collection, addictive algorithm, and it’s owner — the Chinese company ByteDance — are raising questions about the dangers the platform poses to the United States.

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0:00.0	FOX and CNN and MSNBC are literally dumpster fires compared to the nuclear
0:05.5	mushroom cloud that is TikTok because it's done in isolation if if if TikTok
0:11.1	has a video of Nancy Pelosi looking as if she's drunk it by the time it's
0:16.2	noticed on TikTok or even on Facebook a billion people have seen it if Fox
0:21.2	runs that literally two minutes later that people are all over FOX the top
0:26.6	program at CNBC gets a hundred and eighty thousand viewers so if you want to
0:31.8	talk about influence I mean Sean Hannity has less influence than the top 10
0:37.2	influencers on TikTok we just don't know about it our 16-year-old doesn't rail
0:42.3	against Tucker Carlson or say they love Stephanie Rull they're just watching
0:46.1	this entertainment feed that slowly but surely shapes their views of the world
0:49.7	in America I'm John Favreau welcome to offline hey everyone my guest this
0:57.4	week is Scott Galloway you may know Scott from his podcast the Prof. G show New
1:01.9	York Magazine's pivot which he co-hosts with friend of offline Kara Swisher or
1:06.0	from his excellent newsletter no mercy no malice Scott's one of those guests I've
1:10.6	wanted to have on since I started the show someone who knows way more about the
1:14.3	internet than I do and could speak to just about any offline topic but I
1:18.1	invited him on to talk about the one media platform that in Scott's words
1:22.4	has quote risen to the iron throne TikTok so as a Twitter addict I've been
1:29.0	slow to get on TikTok but apparently I maybe the only one as of 2021
1:34.3	TikTok commands more attention per user than Facebook and Instagram combined and
1:40.5	it has more monthly users than Snapchat LinkedIn and Twitter combined the app
1:46.8	was 2021's most visited website it feels like overnight or at least over a
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