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TikTok addiction, Sheryl Sandberg, and robots

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The Downsides of Anonymous

There was a problem in Italy about a year ago, when the Italian regulate. And Tik Tok deleted like half a million accounts where they couldn't verify the age. Many were believed to be under 13. But what Tik Tok does is it will see that and then it will start taking them as it starts to test what other things they might like. So you've got this kind of hand in hand situation where the algorithm is feeding more of the demand. It's a little bit, well, that's the whole point of Anonymous. I'm not sure that there's evidence for that.

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