TikTok is transforming the internet, and it’s just getting started
More people visited TikTok last year than Google. It’s the fastest app to reach a billion users, and it’s not slowing down.
A hundred million Americans now use TikTok, including two-thirds of teens. “We’re not talking about a dance app,” Abbie Richards, a researcher who studies disinformation on TikTok, tells the Washington Post. “We’re talking about a platform that’s shaping how a whole generation is learning to perceive the world.”
Reset examines the spectacular rise of the world’s favorite video-sharing platform and what comes next for TikTok and its users.
GUEST: Drew Harwell, technology reporter at the Washington Post
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TikTok is transforming the internet, and it’s just getting started
More people visited TikTok last year than Google. It’s the fastest app to reach a billion users, and it’s not slowing down.
A hundred million Americans now use TikTok, including two-thirds of teens. “We’re not talking about a dance app,” Abbie Richards, a researcher who studies disinformation on TikTok, tells the Washington Post. “We’re talking about a platform that’s shaping how a whole generation is learning to perceive the world.”
Reset examines the spectacular rise of the world’s favorite video-sharing platform and what comes next for TikTok and its users.
GUEST: Drew Harwell, technology reporter at the Washington Post