8 Feb 2025

TikTok: Security concern or victim of geopolitics?

From Saturday Morning, 7:42 am on 8 February 2025
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TikTok is the social media app that feels like it is taking over the world... or at least our kids.

It is massive, it is addictive - and there are also huge security and privacy concerns, mainly because it comes from China.

The US tried to ban it, then reversed that. Here in New Zealand - it is banned on parliamentary devices.

But can we separate genuine security concerns from the international politics.

RNZ explainer editor Katie Kenny breaks it down.

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