TikTok and the data war
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4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has ordered firms to stop doing business with social media giant TikTok over security concerns. Microsoft was the front-runner to buy the company, but now Twitter has emerged as a possible suitor. What has made the app so popular and so controversial?
Guests:
Danny Fortson Sunday Times west coast correspondent.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: NBC, Tik Tok, ABC Australian, Biteable, France 24, CNBC, Fox News, Huffington Post, ABC News.
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| 0:00.0 | Dame Judy Dench, Dench, Oscar winner, Star of Stage and Screen, National Treasure, and now Tik-Tock and legend. |
| 0:18.0 | Mar, what do you get if you cross a pig with a dinosaur? |
| 0:22.0 | Jurassic pork. |
| 0:24.0 | Oscar winning stars do it. |
| 0:26.0 | Teenagers in their bedrooms do it. |
| 0:28.0 | Have you done it? |
| 0:30.0 | Have you joined Tik-Tock? |
| 0:32.0 | It is addictive and it's very, very easy to get sucked down the rabbit hole. |
| 0:37.0 | The app, which has spread like wildfire |
| 0:40.0 | across the parched landscape of lockdown life, bringing us dancing teens and comedians lip-sinking |
| 0:46.4 | the words of politicians has now found itself at the centre of a proxy war between China and the West. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, you can't divorce this from what is happening with the politics. |
| 0:58.0 | It just came together in this toxic mix, which culminated of course with Donald Trump threatening to ban it outright. |
| 1:09.8 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:14.6 | I'm Manveon Rana. |
| 1:16.8 | Today, Tik-Tock and the Data War. Attention in all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 1:40.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 1:46.0 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 1:49.2 | I'm Danny Fortson. I'm the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times based in Oakland, California. |
| 1:58.0 | And I spend day and day out covering everything from the ridiculous to the sublime of the technology |
| 2:04.4 | industry out here. Well we're talking about both today because we want to talk |
| 2:09.6 | about Tik-Tok and I wanted to know for The people who haven't seen it, could you just describe a |
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