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TIKTOK IS ONE of the world’s most popular social media apps, with over 1 billion users drawn to its rapid-fire video stream and huge array of content.
But it’s also one of the most controversial apps, given its Chinese ownership (it’s run by ByteDance, which also has many other apps which are only available in China), and concerns about what it does with its data.
Last week, the CEO of TikTok, Shou Chew, was questioned before US Congress about the app. While some of the questions centred around user behaviour, many other questions were about the ownership of TikTok, what it does with user data, and whether it poses a risk to people globally because of how much data it can access.
On this week’s podcast, Chris Stokel-Walker, author of TikTok Boom: China’s Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media, joins us to discuss what’s been going on with TikTok, and what we need to know. He chats to presenter Laura Byrne about the app’s background, ByteDance, and how different TikTok really is to all the other big apps out there.
Listen to The Explainer
https://soundcloud.com/the-explainer-podcast/why-is-there-concern-over-how-tiktok-is-using-your-data?si=9b6d449ee9da40f3b0511069ea6a1a8d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
This episode was created by presenters Sinéad O’Carroll and Laura Byrne, and producers Aoife Barry and Nicky Ryan.
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Poll are getting more and more ridiculous
@Tony Skillington: new poll “are polls getting ridiculous?”
Never! I decided to buy a house instead.
But your grandfather, the avocado importer, took umbrage and wouldn’t give you the deposit for a house. Furious, you spat out a pit, and sulked for five years, then found an avocado tree growing from the pit. You sold the fruit, bought him out and opened a cafe and a BMW franchise.
Been eating avocados for over 25 years.
@Paul Mkhitaryan: ”tis far from avocados you were brought up
Poll: Do you think these polls are absurd? Give it to us straight. Honest answers only please
@Matty Kineven: I just can’t help but click though
@Yvonne Gavican: I’d like to take you out for some avacados. Pick you up at 8?
@Matty Kinevan: I’ll give it to you straight. These polls are f*cking ridiculous. The Journal journalists must be teenagers.
Are you an avocado or an avocadon’t?
Those hipster Mexicans with their guacamole
made from Avocado
@Donal Proctor: Not to mention the trendy hipster Aztecs before them.
How is there no story on the dolphin that attended a CIT house party yet Journal?
@Crocodylus Pontifex: Because this is a serious news and current affairs website, not the 3am Girls’ Gossip Column.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: that story is just as legitimate as most of the stuff this site publishes
This is ridiculous. Anyone who grew up in a Latin American household is probably amused (I know I am) by the sudden drama over a fruit which for them is as commonplace as tomatoes are for most people. Ironically tomatoes even came from the same part of the world.
@Harry Whitehead: Poll in the Mexican Journal: How often do you eat schpuds?
@Matty Kineven: Nah, if you wanted an equivalent ‘weird’ import, try names – the modern trend among Latin Americans is to give your kids ‘English’ sounding names. A few years ago there was a craze for naming girls ‘Leydy’…after Princess Diana. I kid you not.
@Harry Whitehead: My hand’s name is Jennifer Lopez. I know all about it lad.
@Matty Kineven: Ooooh behave!
@Harry Whitehead: Ha! I didn’t mean it like that or even think of it like that :-) It’s a reference to my profile pic on here.
Where’s the “Whenever it’s in the Super 6 in Aldi” option?
Every hour on the hour
@Geraldine McKenna: 2 avocados during the Angelus at 6pm
I was in a club one night when a Scouse bird came up to me and said, “Do you like avocado?”
I replied, “No, sorry love, I don’t drive.”
@Ruairí Bulger: Very good. Took a minute to sink in :-)
Never eaten an Avocado are they tasty ?
@Jason McCutcheon: They can be very tasty. Best left to ripen until they are soft – serve them in halves (personally I haven’t a clue how people manage injure themselves slicing avocados any more than sliciing peaches) with a pinch of salt – they have an almost butter-like texture, which you just scoop out of the shell with a spoon.
@Jason McCutcheon: Ssshhh.. that’s the question for next week’s poll.
Whenever i can find the hint of lime doritos.
Please stop. The pain of these polls are too much now.
My mams been eating this shite for 50 years, now that its fashionable she said its tripled in price!
I never av a cado
I stopped eating avocados a few months ago and have saved 50,000 euro for a deposit.
Im super hipster, i have my own avovado tree…well plant. Not quite a tree yet.
Never. Makes me sick as a small hospital.
I used to when I could afford shopping for food . But is rare to see a descent one here . They are weird though purply and way too small not properly mature and tasteless .
Strange . And now a days they may have the odd one normal size
But I don’t do monthly shopping anymore .
I may try to plant me a tree . If the bank don’t take my house in 10 years I will have me an avocado of my own . ( take nine years for first season and one more for a nice one )
Genuine question. I only eat avocado for guacamole. However, the type of avocados here never work. Too tough. The black ones aldi sell are good. So is there a recommended type?
Avocados are disgusting and not worth the hype they get
I would eat avocados if they weren’t unripe and so expensive. Leave them to ripen and the mishandling prior to purchase just results in blackened flesh from the bruising
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