americans on tiktok tiktok ceo grilled on capitol hill lawmakers look to ban the platform. tiktok is a weapon by the chinese communist party to spy on you. first of all disagree with the characterization that is spying and warned of possible mental health impacts for kids. kids your technology is literally leading to death. tonight we ll talk to popular tiktokers about why they log on. i m asking politicians don t take away the community that we have all built and answer your questions. what data elements are being collected. teens are finding ways around all these parental controls. cnn prime time is time up for tiktok. good evening. i m abby phillip. it s one of the most popular social media apps on the planet , and it is also one of the most controversial a billion monthly active users over 150 million right here in the united states. they shoot and they share videos on tiktok for fun or they watch them and others earn entire incomes through it. so many of the nations were
Note that the us has provided no public evidence that china is, in fact using us user data to spy and surveil americans, but it s also important to talk about the fact that both democrats and republicans are united on this issue. so where do we go from here? this hearing large probably made it more possible for legislators to come up with something that would possibly restrict severely tiktok. here in the us as far as a ban or sale of tiktok. those are more on unlikely a ban would likely face legal challenges just that it just as it did with the trump ministrations in 2020 and a sale well, if bite dance, even allowed the sale. that would be quite expensive for us. buyer abby. your guess is as good as mine. yeah. i mean, it is. there are billions of dollars tied up in that vanessa, your cave, which thank you very much. now the focus on today s
So the fact that they can is an issue and they ve got to move it here and pull it away from china doesn t mean it hasn t been copied there. you know this? this is a super complex thing. and that s why he was declining to answer fully. there is not a not a yes or no answer. data is global now, and it s everywhere , including facebook data, etcetera, etcetera, so it s a really difficult problem and especially because it s the chinese government involved, and lance 150 million people. i mean, that s a huge number. and they revealed that this week to show that this would not be an easy feat to ban tiktok. what would that look like? i mean, people i think that was sort of mischaracterized during the hearing in which they kept talking about young people dancing singing, you know, and obviously it s far more than that. people have made businesses on it. they are they are selling things. they re selling ideas. they are teaching people things they are finding communities within tech talk. and,
Just on tiktok. but on all the social media platforms and i absolutely would let my child used the app because i think it it s a great has a lot of value, right. you can use it to learn so much information about different topics. you can use it to find your people find your communities and learn about different things that you re really interested in. and so because of that value, i think it outweighs the potential cons that they re talking about. and hannah before we go. i mean, do you think that you ve built this community around? wage transparency. essentially would that have been possible? no oh, my gosh. no i would not have been able to build my platform starting on facebook, youtube or instagram. just the reach that videos get on tiktok was a huge game changer for me. the first day we posted our video. it went viral overnight. it got six million views within, like a week. unheard of. i ve still to this day. i have not seen that kind of traction on instagram. and i can tell you as
Of high quality promotional items delivered on time, go to four imprint .com imprint for certain. jason sudeikis joins jake tapper, cnn prime time tomorrow at nine. china is slamming the u. s for considering a ban on tiktok. but it s worth pointing out that china doesn t even allow tiktok at home, but they ve got instead is this heavily censored version of the app, and it s allowing chinese state media to push some rather ironic and inflammatory messages about the united states . cnn s selena wang offers a closer look. b i s pressure is building again in washington to ban tiktok because it s owned by a chinese company by dance in china, tiktok is banned, in fact, it never existed. instead there is a separate version of bite dances. app in china called