Why the U.S. Government is Taking on TikTok

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What’s truly behind the proposed bill in Congress to ban the TikTok app? Andy thinks it may have more to do with U.S.-China competition than national security or our children’s mental health. He explores that opinion with investigative journalist Julia Angwin and Cornell’s Tech Policy Institute director Sarah Kreps, who lay out the concerns raised about TikTok and explain why banning it won’t keep us safe.

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Read Julia’s opinion piece, “How to Fix the TikTok Problem”: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/opinion/tiktok-ban-big-tech-china.html
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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Julie Alui-Dreyfus.
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1:22.3	This is Andy Slavitt. Welcome. Keep emailing me.
1:41.9	Andy at LemonadeMedia.com. I so appreciate it.
1:45.5	The controversy over Tiktok has a lot of things at its core.
1:52.5	Let's talk about them quickly.
1:54.6	The health of our kids as a public health issue.
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