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Clocks Tick Closer to a TikTok Ban on Sunday
Episode 193

Clocks Tick Closer to a TikTok Ban on Sunday

The popular social media app TikTok could be banned for U.S. users starting this Sunday, when a new law goes into effect.

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

January 17, 202522m 18s

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Show Notes

The popular social media app TikTok could be banned for U.S. users starting this Sunday, when a new law goes into effect. 

On Today's Show:
Social media reporter for The Information, Sylvia Varnham O'Regan discusses the latest news, including how President-elect Donald Trump may react to the ban, and Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), offers legal analysis of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the ban.

Topics

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