TikTok under scrutiny: Top executive responds to concerns about China's ownership
Reliable Sources
CNN
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Brian Stelter interviews TikTok VP Michael Beckerman and FCC commissioner Brendan Carr about TikTok's handling of user data. Plus, Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa talks about the fight for press freedom around the world; David French says most Americans are part of an "exhausted majority;" and Nicole Hemmer, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, and Oliver Darcy discuss some of the week's top media stories.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Salter live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine |
| 0:06.7 | the story behind this story, and we figure out what's reliable. |
| 0:10.7 | On this weekend, devoted to independence, a pioneering newsroom in the Philippines |
| 0:15.4 | is fighting for its freedom. |
| 0:17.6 | Nobel winning journalist Maria Restletel, Jimmy Live, on her battle to keep her news outlet |
| 0:22.5 | running. |
| 0:23.5 | Plus, brand new remarks today from Congresswoman Liz Cheney in the wake of Cassidy Hutchinson's |
| 0:28.5 | testimony, David French here to react, and later, a media mogul going up against President |
| 0:34.8 | Biden, but it's not who you think. |
| 0:37.0 | We will take a look at what Jeff Bezos is saying about Biden and why, but first, two |
| 0:43.2 | exclusive interviews about one of the most influential companies in the world. |
| 0:48.1 | And its name is TikTok. |
| 0:50.4 | Yes, the short form video app is now the most downloaded app in the world, beating Instagram |
| 0:55.9 | to that title. |
| 0:57.2 | TikTok has been downloaded more than 3.5 billion times. |
| 1:00.9 | And the people who download the app love the app. |
| 1:04.3 | They spent an average of 46 minutes a day on it. |
| 1:07.1 | Other social media giants, they look at TikTok with envy. |
| 1:10.9 | TikTok is the fastest growing app in history. |
| 1:13.8 | It is quite simply storming past the competition, causing rivals to create rip off products. |
| 1:19.1 | And while on the surface, the app appears to, you know, bring a lot of joy to people, |
| 1:23.9 | causing dance styles and pushing cooking trends and the like. |
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