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One of the first things that President Donald Trump did after taking office was to issue an executive order instructing the Justice Department to postpone the implementation of a legislation that would have banned the video-sharing software TikTok until April 5, 2025.
Given that the ban had only been in place the day before and that TikTok was unavailable for roughly 12 hours over the weekend, many of its users chose to utilize another platform that had many of the same worries regarding security, privacy, and connections to the Chinese government.
Those who use these platforms and those who create policies to control them are, to put it mildly, at odds.
With the assistance of two local experts, producer Brenda Valdivia investigates why there is such worry about the possible dangers that TikTok poses and why its users don’t appear to care all that much in an interview on Houston Matters:
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Dr. Moshe Vardi
, a professor of computational engineering at Rice University
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Dr. Elizabeth Rodwell
, an assistant professor of digital media at the University of Houston
