The rise and rise of TikTok
Tech Life
BBC
4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Why the Chinese video-sharing app seems to have Facebook worried. Plus, a leading AI researcher in Ghana tells us why algorithms used in Africa but trained on data from elsewhere could make biased decisions. And how a common definition of online abuse could help to tackle it more effectively. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield, and special guest Parmy Olson, tech reporter from the Wall Street Journal.
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| 0:44.3 | in the technology business. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones, and this week we'll be looking at the |
| 0:49.0 | rise and rise of TikTok. In the week, we discover that the Chinese-owned social video site is the rival feared by Mark Zuckerberg. |
| 0:58.1 | We travel to Ghana to find out whether artificial intelligence trained in the West might be producing biased results. |
| 1:04.5 | And we find out whether the answer to moderating harmful content online is more people or better technology. |
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