The Intelligence: Is time up for TikTok?
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The US Congress is refusing to scroll past the app’s links to China. If the bill they passed becomes law, the video-sharing network will be forced to find new owners. Binyamin Netanyahu’s emergency war-time budget has just been approved. What is the cost of Israel’s ongoing war (10:40)? And, snapping up Old Masters in Maastricht (18:14).
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| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to thera Obanbei. |
| 0:45.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm Ora Obanbei. |
| 0:48.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:57.0 | Between October 7th and the end of 2023, Israel's war in Gaza cost it an extra $8 billion. |
| 1:04.0 | That war looks set to continue and the funding for it is going to have to come from somewhere. |
| 1:08.8 | The somewhere looks like the welfare state. |
| 1:11.4 | And our coach... like the welfare state. |
| 1:14.0 | And our culture editor takes us to Maastricht to visit one of the last art fairs to focus on old |
| 1:20.0 | masters by long dead Europeans. The limited supply of these valuable works is still enticing |
| 1:26.7 | museum collectors from across the world. But first. Lots of people love Tik-Tok, but Americans, Americans really love Tik-Tok. |
| 1:48.0 | Something like half the population is on there for nearly an hour a day. |
| 2:00.0 | On this vote the yeas are 352 the nays are 65. That's why a vote in Congress yesterday stands to change the country's media diet so much. |
| 2:07.0 | And without the objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. |
| 2:10.0 | The House of Representatives passed a bill barring app stores and internet providers from distributing foreign adversary controlled applications. |
| 2:20.0 | Their target was clear. |
| 2:22.0 | Tik-Tox Boss, Shohu, wasn't happy. |
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