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Mar 2023
30m 9s

TikTok Tries to Sweet Talk Congress

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Facing calls for an outright ban, TikTok’s CEO defends the company’s ownership to Congress. An appellate court allows a trial to go forward for parents of a school shooter. And hip-hop fans contemplate what a series of attacks on rappers mean for the genre.

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