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Aug 2020
48m 41s

Is time up for TikTok?

THE TIMES
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Amber Rudd and Flora Gill are joined by TikTok star Meggie Foster, BBC video journalist Sophia Smith Galer and host of The Times' Tales of Silicon Valley podcast Danny Fortson, to discuss the success of TikTok, its forced sale by President Donald Trump, and ask if we should be concerned about China having control of our data.


Producer: Ben Mitchell

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