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TikTok is making tax policy cool

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🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

TikTok is the go-to place for memes and dance videos. But sometimes those pieces of content can play a critical role in letting lawmakers know which policies are working and which ones are not. Today, the Washington Post’s Dave Jorgenson (@davejorgenson) and Vox’s Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) join Recode Daily to discuss how TikTok is influencing American democracy and encouraging civic engagement. ---------------- References: Read Dylan’s story here Watch Dave’s TikToks here This episode was made by: Host: Adam Clark Estes (@adamclarkestes) Producer: Alan Rodriguez Espinoza (@ardzes) Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Rico Daily, you breach Adam Clark at this, and we can't come to the phone right

0:15.8

now because we're taking a break for the holidays.

0:18.9

So for the next two weeks, get ready to revisit some of our favorite episodes from this year

0:23.6

as we rest up and get ready to make all sorts of good stuff in 2022.

0:28.5

But one quick question before we go, do you have a favorite tech tip or hack that you

0:33.6

feel like no one knows but everyone should know?

0:37.0

Like mine for example is that there's a place deep in your Facebook settings where you

0:41.2

can download all your Facebook photos and save them somewhere else.

0:45.4

Well, if you have a tip, email it to us and maybe we'll include it on an episode we've

0:49.5

got cooking.

0:50.7

We are Rico Daily at Rico.net.

0:54.1

In the meantime, thanks for spending so much time with us this year, and we'll see you

0:57.7

in the next.

1:19.9

TikTok is the go-to spot for memes, dance tutorials, product recommendations, and recently hours

1:25.0

of getting way to invested in sorority recruitment videos.

1:29.2

But what if I told you it's also grounds for riveting discourse about American tax policy?

1:35.1

That's right, the wonky stuff.

1:37.2

Turns out TikTok makes it really easy for everyday Americans to let lawmakers know how they feel

1:42.2

about their work.

1:43.8

The best example of this might be the trend of dance videos celebrating the arrival of the

1:48.2

coveted stimulus check.

1:50.0

But these are just memes, right?

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