Kim Wong’s TikTok videos highlight the complicated reality of the push to ban one of the United States’ most popular apps.
last month that a ban would unfairly silence Americans’ voices at home and undermine their “cultural leadership” around the world.
Ioana Literat, an associate professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College who studies youth political expression on social media, said banning a platform of TikTok’s prominence and cultural significance would instantly eliminate a place where many young people are building relationships and establishing their personal viewpoints.“Peer groups are so important at this stage in life, and TikTok is their hangout space,” Literat said.
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