Should the U.S. ban TikTok?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The House passed a bill that could force the sale of TikTok, or ban the app altogether. But is targeting a single social media platform the best way to protect Americans from espionage and covert influence campaigns? Jake Auchincloss, Emily Baker-White and Jim Lewis join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.
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| 0:31.8 | Not enough people are talking about this. |
| 0:33.6 | They're trying to ban Tik-Tok tomorrow, |
| 0:36.6 | and this time it's different. |
| 0:38.3 | You mean to tell me, we have 535 Congress members |
| 0:41.4 | and they cannot agree on nothing, nothing besides banning Tik-Tok |
| 0:45.0 | We are actually out here living one of the novels that we read about of a |
| 0:50.6 | dystopia we're living it. They all see, we're living it. Like it's Fahrenheit |
| 0:56.1 | 451, literally. Tic-Tockers having their say about Congress contemplating a |
| 1:02.3 | possible US ban on Tik-Tok. |
| 1:05.0 | Last week in the House, an overwhelming bipartisan majority, |
| 1:09.0 | 352 to 65, passed a bill targeting Tik-Tok. |
| 1:14.2 | The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act |
| 1:19.8 | proposes to force ownership of Tik-Tok |
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