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What’s Behind the Bipartisan Attack on TikTok?

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The Pros and Cons of TikTok's Tracking Journalist Data

The concern is not just the tracking of user data, but the algorithm itself. The idea that TikTok could be used as a sort of propaganda machine favoring opinion sympathetic to China or critical of the US. "We can't overlook the fact that this company spied on journalists," he says.

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