Nervous TikTok

Planet Money

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4.6 • 30.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The U.S. was going to ban TikTok... and then it didn't. We break down the beef with TikTok, and see what life would have been like without it. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:03.6	Can you introduce yourself and tell me what your job is?
0:09.6	Yeah, my name is Jack Horbitt.
0:11.7	My job is Planet Money TikTok, I make videos for Planet Money on TikTok.
0:18.6	Are you our intern?
0:19.8	No, I'm not.
0:21.1	I'm not.
0:22.1	I never was the Planet Money intern.
0:23.5	I was the music video intern last year.
0:26.8	No, I'm a production assistant for the video team.
0:30.8	I answered no one at Planet Money.
0:34.4	So bold, but not exactly true.
0:37.7	Jack officially works for and is paid out of NPR's video team's budget, not by Planet Money,
0:42.9	not by TikTok.
0:44.3	But full disclosure, last spring TikTok approached Planet Money and they said that they wanted
0:49.6	our brand of edutainment on the platform.
0:52.9	They gave us a small grant.
0:54.4	It was part of their learn on TikTok initiative.
0:57.0	I think the wording is TikTok helps fund some of the videos that Planet Money posts on
1:01.9	the platform.
1:03.0	But yeah, they have like no, they have no like editorial say.
1:06.2	They're just like make something educational.
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