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🗓️ 25 April 2024
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This might be the end of TikTok. President Joe Biden signed a bill this week which allows the US government to ban the platform if TikTok doesn't divest from it's China-based owner, ByteDance, within a year.
Today on the show, we’re going to talk about what happens to TikTok now and how this new law affects the politicians and influencers who use TikTok.
Leah Feiger is @LeahFeiger. Tori Elliott is @Telliotter. Makena Kelly is @kellymakena. Write to us at [email protected]. Be sure to subscribe to WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.
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0:18.4 | Welcome to Wired Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics. |
0:23.7 | I'm Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at Wired. |
0:27.5 | I just signed in the law of the national security package that was passed by the House |
0:32.0 | representatives this weekend and by the Senate yesterday. |
0:36.5 | This week, President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid bill into law. |
0:40.9 | It's going to make America safer. |
0:42.7 | It's going to make the world safer. |
0:44.3 | And it continues America's leadership in the world, and everyone knows. |
0:48.4 | The package contained billions of dollars in aid for Ukraine and Israel |
0:51.7 | and humanitarian support in Gaza. |
0:54.4 | But it also included a provision related to the immensely popular Chinese-owned social media |
0:59.0 | platform TikTok. The platform will now have to come under American ownership within a year, |
1:04.1 | or face being banned in the U.S. entirely. |
1:07.1 | Today on the show, we're going to talk about what happens to TikTok and how this new law |
1:10.8 | affects the politicians and influencers who use the app. |
1:14.7 | Joining me this week from the Wired Politics Desk in New York are McKenna Kelly and Victoria Elliott. |
1:20.3 | McKenna, Tori, how are you doing after this very newsy week? |
1:24.3 | Very tired. |
1:25.3 | We did it, Joe. We did it. So this has happened really fast. What's |
1:31.9 | going on? How did we get to this point? This happened so fast, especially for Congress, which |
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