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TikTok Stole Our Hearts, but Can It Last?
The hosts of “Uncanny Valley” chronicle the TikTok ban saga and ask: What makes the app so uniquely vulnerable?
Whereas, to your point, Mike, and I understand that Instagram is hyper-targeted so the stuff I'm going to see is different from what other people are going to see, but I felt like I would see a really nice sweater and be actually tempted to buy it, versus the tchotchke that was being hocked to me on TikTok. Now a lot of First Amendment scholars do find the ban disturbing for that reason, but I think just as many people here are arguing that a China-based company doesn't necessarily have access to US free speech protections. Lauren Goode: Well, I think we've already felt a lot of the changes from a user perspective because since TikTok really captured the zeitgeist, we've seen all these other apps introduce different tweaks to their algorithms, more short form videos, shopping.
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