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Calacanis: Americans check social platforms before trusting The New York Times
“Now it's become, I think, where a lot of Americans are by default saying, let me read the tick, let me read the substacks, TikToks, and Twitter before I trust the New York Times.”
Calacanis: ByteDance internal probe confirmed employees accessed US reporters' data
“According to the New York Times, ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, said on Thursday that an internal investigation found that employees had inappropriately obtained the data of US TikTok users, including that of two reporters.”
Sacks: Concerns over Facebook should be ten times greater for TikTok
“Whatever problems people have with Facebook, they should have them like, 10 x with TikTok.”
Calacanis: TikTok is compelling but leaves users feeling regretful
“It's such a compelling product. You feel so terrible using it. So you love it at something and then you feel very vapid for having used it and you have regret.”
Friedberg: TikTok will capture user-generated event video market if Twitter restricts consent
“Don't you think the biggest winner here is going to be TikTok because if Twitter does go forward with the standing. Yeah, if they say, look, you can't put user generated content on our platform if it has video and images of personal of people without their con…”
Friedberg: TikTok US represents only 5% to 8% of overall business
“It's only five percent, five to eight percent of the overall TikTok business.”
Khanna: 1.3 million people signed a petition against banning TikTok
“We had 1.3 million people sign a petition.”
Sacks: 95% of adult TikTok users use the app for entertainment
“In the same survey you're talking about, 95% of adults that use TikTok say they use it because it's entertaining.”
Chamath: US Senate will overwhelmingly approve the TikTok divestiture bill
“And it looks like in the Senate, there may be some refinements that happened, but it's going to get largely overwhelmingly approved there as well.”
Friedberg: A US TikTok ban will significantly benefit Meta, Instagram, and X
“If TikTok gets banned in the US, it's going to benefit Meta. It's going to benefit Instagram. It's going to benefit a few other, you know, social networks. It's going to benefit Elon at Twitter. There's a few folks that are going to benefit pretty significantl…”
Calacanis: Digital ad gains shift to Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and Uber
“All the gains in advertising have gone to those two firms and now TikTok obviously. And Amazon, Uber building respectable ad businesses as well. So all of that takes ads out of publications and puts it closer to the point of purchase, right?”
Chamath: TikTok default settings enable microphone, camera, and network access
“The default settings when you install TikTok, it turns on local network, turns on microphone, turns on camera. Turns on background app refresh and turns on cell data.”
Friedberg: TikTok will soon be bigger than YouTube
“Look at how big TikTok has gotten. It is bigger than YouTube almost, or will be soon.”
Thielke: There is effectively no difference between Douyin and TikTok
“There's effectively no difference between Doyun and TikTok.”