Matt Grimm: Foreign control of social media algorithms risks long-term US national security
Matt Grimm · Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Nov 11, 2024 · at 1:32:12
Matt Grimm, co-founder and COO of defense tech manufacturer Anduril, explains his rationale for why TikTok poses a fundamental national security threat to the United States.
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“What we are willingly doing is we are willingly letting a strategic adversary control the knobs on what gets mainlined into the psyche of our youth. And if you don't think that that has long-term strategic implications for the motivation, for the ambition, for the direction of a country, then man, I don't know what to tell you, but like, it, if they're going to have their finger on the scale and on the knob, control the knob of what's being consumed by the, you know, overwhelming majority of our citizens, yeah, we shouldn't want it.”
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