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What is the RESTRICT Act? TikTok and Beyond

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Origins of TikTok

TikTok was created in September of 2016 by a Beijing-based company called Bike Dance, Bite with a Y. Within one year of this thing launching, Duyin had 100 million users, one billion plus videos viewed each day. It's got a quote that's quite prescient, I think, and pretty realistic: "There is some weird stuff behind that curtain"

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