Saturday, April 27th, 2024
Special Edition: Sell or Be Banned – TikTok Ultimatum
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The countdown has started for the owner of one of the most popular social media apps in America to either sell its stake or be banned in the U.S. To help explain how we got here and what might happen next, I’m joined by a journalist who has been following the TikTok saga closely: WIRED senior writer Makena Kelly.
Read Makena Kelly’s full reports: wired.com/author/makena-kelly/
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Guest: Makena Kelly
Makena Kelly is a senior writer at WIRED, where she covers the intersection of politics, power, and technology. She is also the author of the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter and a frequent guest on the WIRED Politics Lab podcast.
Prior to joining WIRED, Kelly was a politics reporter at The Verge, where she covered ground-breaking investigative news at the intersection of tech, politics, and business. She has appeared on programs including CNN, BBC, NPR’s 1A, and WNYC’s “On the Media.”
Kelly graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She resides in New York.
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