#TIKTOK: #PRC: Conversation with colleague Gordon Chang and our guest from Mekbourne, Paul DeBrowa, a national security adviser, re the algorithm on the TikTok App -- and surprising information bout how and why it was built. More later.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 March 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is John Bachelor, conversation with Gordon Chang, my colleague, and Paul de Brova from Melbourne about |
| 0:25.6 | Tik-Toc. What it does, what it can do, who designed it, how it's being used, how it has |
| 0:31.8 | been used. Here Paul tells us very carefully that we have |
| 0:37.9 | an app on iPhones in the hands of teenagers and tweeners and young people that is a product of |
| 0:46.3 | state security. You understand state security is not a good actor, it's a bad |
| 0:52.1 | actor. Here's Paul de Brova to explain there's much more to this |
| 0:55.8 | conversation but this is the app that's on the iPhone of your children. |
| 1:01.3 | Well at the end of the day you have to ban Tik-Tok. I mean just like I said to you, I mean why do 12-year-olds have a smartphone |
| 1:09.6 | app that was designed by the Chinese Prop ministry to control and manipulate the population, |
| 1:15.9 | to collect psychological profiles and to work out what they were going to do. |
| 1:20.1 | More of this later. |
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