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A ban on the Chinese social-media app TikTok, first floated by the Trump Administration, is gaining traction in Washington. Lawmakers from both parties fear that the app could be manipulated by Chinese authorities to gain insight into American users and become an effective tool for propaganda against the United States. But is TikTok more of a threat than the social media controlled in Silicon Valley? David Remnick talks with The New Yorker’s Washington correspondent Evan Osnos, and with Chris Stokel-Walker, the author of “TikTok Boom.” Plus, the playwright Larissa FastHorse talks with the staff writer Vinson Cunningham about being the first Native American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. FastHorse’s satire about white liberals attempting to make a historically accurate, yet completely inoffensive, play about Thanksgiving opens next week.
What’s Behind the Bipartisan Attack on TikTok?
A hundred and fifty million Americans are on the Chinese-owned app. Evan Osnos and Chris Stokel-Walker discuss why politicians who agree on little else are keen to ban it.
The Playwright Larissa FastHorse on “The Thanksgiving Play,” Broadway’s New Comedy of White Wokeness
Vinson Cunningham talks with FastHorse, the first Native American woman to have a play produced on Broadway.
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