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Platformer / Casey Newton / Mar 12, 2025
“There’s an absurd comedy in the current state of affairs. On one hand there is the federal government, trying and failing to ban TikTok from the United States; on the other there is TikTok, trying new ways to get its own user base to stop using it. Everyone seems to agree on the problem (using TikTok); everyone seems to agree on the solution (stop using TikTok). Everyone also agrees that people are going to use TikTok anyway. What can you do?”
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