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TikTok Tries to Sweet Talk Congress

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Facing calls for an outright ban, TikTok’s CEO defends the company’s ownership to Congress. An appellate court allows a trial to go forward for parents of a school shooter. And hip-hop fans contemplate what a series of attacks on rappers mean for the genre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Friday, March 24th, for once Congress looks united, and that's bad news for TikTok.

0:06.0

We start here.

0:07.2

In an unfiltered grilling of TikTok's CEO, lawmakers called China the ultimate influencer.

0:15.3

It's been said it's like allowing the Soviet Union the power to produce Saturday morning

0:19.7

cartoons during the Cold War.

0:21.4

A ban has never looked more likely, and video makers know it.

0:24.6

We'll take you to the Capitol.

0:26.2

When parents be tried for a mass shooting carried out by their child, these ones will.

0:30.7

The shooter's parents were called in the morning of that massacre.

0:33.9

A panel of judges clears the way for a momentous trial.

0:37.8

And a generation after hip-hop's turf wars, more and more rappers are dying.

0:43.2

Fans are consistently grieving.

0:45.5

What's happening in a genre that's long been seen as notorious?

0:51.2

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

0:53.9

I'm Brad Milky.

0:56.2

It's a pretty rare thing in this country for politicians to tell someone they need to

1:07.2

sell their business.

1:08.7

That the company itself is fine, it's just that the owner should not have the right to

1:12.1

own it.

1:13.1

It's even rarer for members of both parties to agree on such a bold move, and it's virtually

1:18.2

unheard of for a business that is insanely popular among their constituents.

1:23.4

And yet, yesterday, when the CEO of TikTok showed up on Capitol Hill, sat down in front

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