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What’s Behind the Bipartisan Attack on TikTok?

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The Chinese Ban Twitter and Other Apps

The Chinese are worried about social media from broad for free speech reasons. We're worried about it for surveillance state reasons, he says. The CEO of TikTok sat in front of a congressional panel and took "a beating," writes CNN's Chris Cillizza. He was hoping to hear some sort of evidence of that backbone between Xi Jinping and Baitland's.

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