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TikTok Part 6: The Showdown

May 20, 2021 · 39 min · Season 2 · Episode 6 · 38.1 MB
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In the summer of 2020, amid a pandemic, historic unemployment and racial unrest, President Donald Trump developed a bizarre obsession with TikTok. In this episode, reporter Shelly Banjo and her colleagues take you aboard Air Force One and into the surreal tit-for-tat fight between TikTok and one of the most powerful men in the world.


Updated May 27, 2021 to reflect ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming's decision to step down.

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