Is TikTok about to go full Maga?
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The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:09.2 | Today, is Trump seizing control of TikTok. |
| 0:16.5 | Bonjour, this is Julia Bradbury, and I've just been uncovering Normandy's hidden gems with Brittany Ferries. |
| 0:26.4 | After one bite of the fresh French-themed cuisine on board, my holiday had started. |
| 0:31.4 | On land, there were retro sidecar tours, barefoot hikes across shifting quicksands, and even a visit to a bee farm. |
| 0:38.7 | So with adventures like these waiting, why settle for any old holiday? |
| 0:42.7 | Uncover the Uncommon with Brittany Ferries. |
| 0:45.3 | And discover more at Guardian.com forward slash uncommon holidays. |
| 0:49.0 | This message was paid for by Brittany Ferries. |
| 1:03.0 | Next, sir, we have an executive order on TikTok from the first days of your administration. |
| 1:06.8 | Donald Trump has signed a lot of executive orders in his time. |
| 1:10.0 | This one, last week, you might have heard about. |
| 1:14.3 | Giving his approval to the sale of one of the world's most popular apps, |
| 1:19.5 | a $14 billion deal that could hand a huge chunk of TikTok's U.S. arm from its Chinese owner to a group of American billionaires. |
| 1:23.7 | A very good talk with President Xi. |
| 1:25.9 | He gave us to go ahead. You know, it's run by American investors. |
| 1:29.9 | The White House says this is a victory after long-running security fears about TikTok and Chinese influence in the U.S. |
| 1:37.1 | The thing that we wanted to accomplish is that we wanted to keep TikTok operating, but we also wanted to make sure that we protected Americans' data privacy as required by law, |
| 1:45.3 | both because it's the right thing to do, but also because it's a legal requirement of the law that was passed last year by Congress. |
| 1:54.5 | But there are troubling questions, how this deal was done, and who really wins out? |
| 2:00.4 | Is this a sweetheart deal that hands one of the biggest platforms in the world |
| 2:04.2 | to Trump's political allies and cements his grip on the media landscape? |
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