TikTok Part 6: The Showdown

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In the summer of 2020, amid a pandemic, historic unemployment and racial unrest, President Donald Trump developed a bizarre obsession with TikTok. In this episode, reporter Shelly Banjo and her colleagues take you aboard Air Force One and into the surreal tit-for-tat fight between TikTok and one of the most powerful men in the world.Updated May 27, 2021 to reflect ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming's decision to step down.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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