What Next TBD: Can TikTok Sway this Election?

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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This election cycle, TikTok has evolved into a news-and-politics delivery mechanism. Will it make a difference? Guest: Sapna Maheshwari, reporting on TikTok and other tech for the New York Times. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Disclosure in Podcast Description: A Bond Account is a self-directed brokerage account with Public Investing, member FINRA/SIPC. Deposits into this account are used to purchase 10 investment-grade and high-yield bonds. As of 9/26/24, the average, annualized yield to worst (YTW) across the Bond Account is greater than 6%. A bond’s yield is a function of its market price, which can fluctuate; therefore, a bond’s YTW is not “locked in” until the bond is purchased, and your yield at time of purchase may be different from the yield shown here. The “locked in” YTW is not guaranteed; you may receive less than the YTW of the bonds in the Bond Account if you sell any of the bonds before maturity or if the issuer defaults on the bond. Public Investing charges a markup on each bond trade. See our Fee Schedule. Bond Accounts are not recommendations of individual bonds or default allocations. The bonds in the Bond Account have not been selected based on your needs or risk profile. See https://public.com/disclosures/bond-account to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.4	If you open up TikTok right now, it's kind of all election all the time.
0:51.0	Those are comedians, by the way, not the candidates.
0:56.4	Though they're on here, too. Whatever flavor of election TikTok you want, you can find it. It's very much pick your own poison.
1:05.6	That's Sopna Maheshwari, who covers TikTok for the New York Times. There are Swifties and people maneuvering Taylor Swift lyrics to suit their candidate of choice.
1:21.7	There's a lot of Hamilton fans doing the same sort of thing.
1:26.9	Joe Biden is yielding his power and stepping away.
1:32.2	Is that true?
1:34.8	I wasn't aware that was something a person could do.
1:39.9	There's news outlets that you've actually heard of,
1:42.9	news outlets that you've never heard of. news outlets that you've never heard of.
1:45.4	There's the candidates themselves, J.D. Vance and Donald Trump and Harris and Walls.
1:52.6	And there's so many debate clips and so many conspiracy theories. So it really, really runs the gamut.
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