Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast, one third of all Americans,

two thirds of American teenagers, a billion users worldwide, ticked off, and just a few

short years has overtaken the world.

It's gone for being the dancing app to impacting daily life in ways you probably wouldn't

imagine.

Viral songs in the app now decide what charts, billboard 100.

Viral songs have infiltrated our lexicon and trends started by the app from fashion

to food or seen everywhere.

Tiktok is in a word ubiquitous, but should Americans even be on it?

There are serious questions about whether the Chinese government has access to American

user data and the company's connections to Chinese Communist Party officials are numerous.

My guest today are Emily Baker White.

She's a journalist at Forbes who is reported on the national security concerns posed by

the platform and its parent company, Bite Dance.

And Kaya Yuryef, a reporter at the information, she covers the sphere of creators on the internet.

Emily and Kaya, I've been so glad to have you to here because Tiktok is a daily debate

in our newsroom.

Meet the press needs to be on Tiktok.

I need to be on Tiktok.

In the back of my head, I hear all these government officials left and right panicked about whether

Tiktok is a national security.

So I've been personally pretty hesitant.

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