Alex Heath: I don't think TikTok is incentivized as a for-profit entity to be subjugated to Chinese government influence or, you know, spying requests. But there's still that uncomfortable dilemma of they're still owned by a Chinese company at the end of the day. It's unclear if the way Project Texas works will actually keep the Chinese government from manipulating anything.
Politicians across the United States are calling for an outright ban on the popular social media platform. Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge, explains how TikTok hopes to pre-empt one from ever passing.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Haleema Shah, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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