WOW! TikTok Slammed For Collecting Kid's Data, Michael Cohen Testimony, Possible Perjury, & More...

What's up you beautiful bastards, hope you're having a fantastic Thursday and welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show. Let's just jump into it. Now the first thing we're going to talk about today is It actually touches on a topic we've talked about in a different manner, here and there throughout the week and that is, thinking of the children! What are the children doing? Are we keeping the children safe? Also - actually side note - before we jump into the real story, this is less a complaint and more because I find it amusing: After posting yesterday's Philip DeFranco Show, where, in part, one of the stories we covered was debunking the MoMo Challenge The official Youtube twitter account, which is followed by 71 million people, quote tweeted me and said "Thanks Philly D for debunking the Momo Challenge and encouraging parents to flag inappropriate content to us." And I was like, "that's pretty cool" And then I woke up and found out they demonetized that video that they promoted. Don't know if they also hit us for content rating, so if you have people that are still spreading misinformation share that video because it's not going to pop up in places that it should be. Potentially, potentially. Also, side-note shout-out to the BBC, The Guardian and other places that are not just feeding the panic around this hoax And doing pieces on how it is a malicious hoax and that there's a feedback loop But that said, the story involving the children today does not involve Youtube but instead, TikTok TikTok, if you don't know, is this massively popular app that allows people to create these short vertical videos where people are dancing, lip syncing with songs, memeing, drawing small sketches, Along with that of course, it has social media elements to it like, you can like videos, you can follow people, you can message people and right now it is the #8 free app in the iPhone App Store and in the first half of 2018 it was the most downloaded app in the App Store worldwide, beating out the likes of YouTube, Instagram and PuBG. June of 2018, the app's global active user count reached 500 million over 150 countries and regions With this surge it has also enabled very young creators to be IMMENSLY successful and popular. You have people like Ariel Martin, babyariel, with 29.3 million fans, Kristen Hancher, 21.6 million, you also have Lisa and Lena Mantler from Germany who are just 16 with 32.5 million fans. But, the reason TikTok is in the news today doesn't have to do with their massive numbers, and the fact that they are the new Kingmaker, but because of allegations that they were illegally collecting the personal data of children. and it turns out, this is due to the business practices of the company while the app was still under the name of Musical.ly before it changed to TikTok back in 2018. And all of that led us to the news today, that the Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with TikTok. So according to the FTC settlement released yesterday on this issue, which according to the statement on their website is the "largest civil penalty ever obtained by the Commission in a children's privacy case",

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Keywords: TikTok, Child Privacy, Fines, Youtube, Video, App, Data, Joe Simons, Ariel Martin, Baby Ariel, Kristen Hancher, Lisa Mantler, Lena Mantler, Musical.ly, FTC, Michael Cohen, Cohen, Testimony, Statement, Trump, Donald Trump, Russia, Donald Trump Jr., Roger Stone, Lynne Patton, Allen Weisselberg, Ivanka Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Matt Gaetz, Elijah Cummings, Congress, House, The Philip DeFranco Show, news, politics, breaking news, world news, current events, daily, opinion, response, satire, satire news

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Length: 19min 7sec (1147 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 28 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/IndieJammer]

If we could stop using phrases like Slammed and come under fire, I think the world would have a lot less click bait.

[u/kirant]

Some stray thoughts on the Cohen testimony:

• The tactics yesterday were extremely clear: Republicans did not directly address any of Cohen's claims and wanted to paint him as an opportunist, untrustworthy, and a bad lawyer. The details of his claims were not heavily explored and there was more focus on him having previously broken the law. Most Democrats, meanwhile, were just having Cohen repeat things we as a public have already known so they have it in testimony.
• I will admit that I did see a greater emphasis on actual information finding by some of the younger Democrats. Katie Hill and Ocasio-Cortez stood out as actually doing their job (that is, asking Cohen for information pertinent to the case they brought him in for) as oppose to political theatre. For Hill, this is my first impression of her and it's a positive one. An interesting point was that she went to clear the issue raised by Mark Meadows (at 1:50). For Ocasio-Cortez, while many of her comments in other situations are controversial for many (to put it lightly), she was clinical and procedural, asking questions which can be used for further investigation or to determine additional avenues for determining the truth. Honestly, it's something I'd like to hear more of from politicians.
• My favourite "WTF" moment of it all was Clay Higgins having no clue who Michael Cohen was, all while dressed like he just got back from a wedding. For context, Higgins claimed that Cohen was in it for the fame and wanted to get on TV, leading to the exchange above.

Realistically, all the hearing does is add more to look up. Cohen made some serious allegations, but the next step is to determine whether there is any authenticity to the claims. I think the best option is to determine what value Cohen's statements have by looking into some facts presented in his claims. Determine if the transactions alleged by Cohen were made through the Trump Foundation and if there is truth in the flow of cash Cohen has suggested. Then bring in witnesses who Cohen allege know more. If Cohen is lying, he will be caught through investigation and grander issues await him.

[u/[deleted]]

Man TikTok is a sketchy fucking company, but that's been known. I remember there shit with Cody Ko where he made a video making fun of them so they claimed the video, ran ads on it, and used the TikToks he made in the video as advertisement for the platform.

[u/QwertyCody]

Real life Hooli situation with the Parental Consent piece.