The New Yorker Radio Hour:

A hundred and fifty million Americans are on TikTok. Evan Osnos and Chris Stokel-Walker discuss why politicians are so keen to ban the app.

With David Remnick 

ban on the Chinese social-media app TikTok, first floated by the Trump Administration, is gaining traction in Washington. Lawmakers from both parties fear that the app could be manipulated by Chinese authorities to gain insight into American users and become an effective tool for propaganda against the United States. But is TikTok more of a threat than the social media controlled in Silicon Valley? David Remnick talks with The New Yorker’s Washington correspondent Evan Osnos, and with Chris Stokel-Walker, the author of “TikTok Boom.” Plus, the playwright Larissa FastHorse talks with the staff writer Vinson Cunningham about being the first Native American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. FastHorse’s satire about white liberals attempting to make a historically accurate, yet completely inoffensive, play about Thanksgiving opens next week.

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