Spotlight — Addressing the TikTok Threat

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

TikTok is now the most popular app for teens in the United States, and is influenced by China — our main geopolitical rival. This week on Your Undivided Attention, we bring you a bonus episode about TikTok. Co-hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin explore the nature of the TikTok threat, and how we might alleviate it.

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0:00.0	Imagine it's the Cold War in the 1960s.
0:02.8	And imagine the Soviet Union put itself into position
0:05.8	to run television programming for the entire Western world
0:10.4	of more than a billion TV viewers.
0:14.4	We would have never in the West
0:16.3	let that happen during the Cold War.
0:19.0	So while this might sound like science fiction,
0:21.5	this is actually the world we're living in right now
0:23.6	with TikTok being influenced by the Chinese Communist Party.
0:27.6	TikTok is projected to have 1.8 billion users
0:31.4	by the end of 2022.
0:33.4	And a Pew Research Study just showed
0:35.4	that TikTok is the most popular app for teens
0:38.4	in the United States.
0:39.6	We now spend more time watching and posting to TikTok
0:42.8	than YouTube.
0:47.4	Hey, Eiza.
0:48.6	Hey, Tristan.
0:50.4	So today I think we wanted to do a bonus episode
0:53.0	to talk about TikTok.
0:54.6	If you didn't know, TikTok recently surpassed
0:56.8	Google and Facebook as the most popular site
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