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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: The Superpower Struggle to Control TikTok, with Emily Baker-White and Mike Isaac
Description: With TikTok's 1.6 billion active users worldwide and unprecedented power it wields over culture, politics, and commerce, the social video app's addictive algorithm is one of the greatest prizes in America’s technological cold war with China.
How did this social media platform become so wildly popular and a source of contention in international politics?
In her book Every Screen on the Planet, Harvard-trained lawyer and investigative journalist Emily Baker-White charts TikTok’s rise from the Chinese founders’ ambitions to its emergence as the world’s most valuable startup―and a potential surveillance and propaganda tool for strong...