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TikTok Data Collection and the Banking Crisis Distraction

from Baby's Gotta Go | The Tim Dillon Show #339 · #339

3 min

He compares TikTok's data collection to Facebook and Twitter, and notes the news cycle pivoted from bank collapse stories to TikTok fear-mongering.

In this bit6 moments
  • TikTok CEO's pitch: we just want to go to war with China, it's an economic necessity.
  • Tim won't defend TikTok but questions the selective outrage over it versus poison food and other dangers to children.
  • TikTok collects roughly the same data as Facebook and Twitter, according to their claims.
  • The concern is that China might be using TikTok to push theories and radicalize American kids.
  • Tim expresses uncertainty about what's real anymore and introduces a TikTok video of someone claiming to be a hawk.
  • The fear: China is deliberately making American children into hawks on TikTok.
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