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The Andrew Klavan Show

The INSIDIOUS Truth Behind TikTok

The Andrew Klavan Show

The Andrew Klavan Show

News Commentary, News

4.822.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The massively popular social media app TikTok, utilized by over a billion users worldwide, is actually an elaborate data surveillance mechanism overseen by the Chinese Communist Party. Daily Wire Entertainment Reporter Megan Basham joins us to discuss the insidious nature of the seemingly harmless internet phenomenon. See all of our exciting content on DailyWire+ here: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe-plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Slack.com slash DHQ. All right, we are always delighted when it's time to talk to Megan

0:32.7

Basham. The daily wires coverage of a lot of stuff has gone really gotten so much better

0:37.8

recently and a good percentage of the reason is Megan's coverage of the culture. She's

0:42.8

doing a great job. She's worked all over the place. Wall Street Journal National Review

0:47.1

Focus on the family, the Washington Times, and she is the author of Beside Every Successful

0:51.8

Man. And we talk to her every month because we like to. Megan, it's good to see you.

0:55.9

That's good to be here. I like being here every month.

0:58.3

Yeah, you're just, you're doing great. You really are. The reporting is just excellent.

1:02.8

You're doing a story now about TikTok. So for someone like me, I don't use TikTok very

1:08.6

much. I see most of the time when I see it as libs of TikTok just showing me crazy people,

1:13.2

what is the problem with TikTok that you have that's now becoming really, really a crisis

1:18.4

almost? Well, and I was like you, Drew. I didn't use it very often. I don't use it at all

1:23.7

really other than when I'm looking at it for stories. I don't let my kids use it. We don't

1:27.7

have social media. So it really wasn't on my radar personally until I started covering

1:33.3

this story. And then you realize that this actually matters to everybody, whether you use

1:38.3

TikTok or not. Part of the issue here is that, you know, we hear a lot of stories about

1:44.4

data harvesting from big tech. And that's scary enough when you're thinking about Mark Zuckerberg

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