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Marco Rubio: “TikTok is the algorithm, the recommender engine, and that's…”

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#380 Marco Rubio How the U.S. Can Recover from Decades of Decadence - The Realignment Podcast.

Published June 15, 2023 | Video Starts at 28:49

And I'll tell you why that matters. Because no matter who owns TikTok or TikTok US, what powers it, the engine that makes TikTok. TikTok is the algorithm, the recommender engine, and that's owned by ByteDance. And under Chinese law, that can never be sold, that can never be exported, and that only works with access to data. So it doesn't matter who even owns the data. (28:49–28:55)

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