headed if we start really talking about data privacy. is facebook that different than tiktok when it comes to data harvesting or privacy in general? that is what too was saying in his testimony, but he was often trying to re-direct the spotlight when people were questioning about is tiktok protecting user data, he was saying look at facebook, you look at google. that is the issue, we don t even understand the data harvesting. we laugh about it like, something that i saw what i was driving by, and then i got a ad for later. before you go, i do want to ask you about twitter. elon musk very recently said that the company is now valued at 20 billion dollars. that is half, it is a huge drop from the 44 billion that it was about four. should this be a concern for us? here is the thing, we are all still using twitter. or most of us are, even if the interface is or.
companies like france are saying that all social media apps are banned from government devices. so if i m running a facebook, if i m running twitter, am i looking at what is happening in places like france? am i getting worried? the u.s. government has said that they can be banned on government devices as well. what was interesting about the french pronouncement was that they were talking about banning even twitter, or facebook. they were equating all social media companies with tiktok. they are saying that all these companies have data privacy issues, and that is where i think the conversation could be headed if we start really talking about data privacy. is facebook that different than tiktok when it comes to data harvesting or privacy in general? that is what too was saying in his testimony, but he was often trying to re-direct the spotlight when people were questioning about is tiktok protecting user data, he was saying look at facebook, you
watch this. to me, the solution here is not to ban an individual company, but to actually protect americans from this kind of egregious david harvesting that companies can do without your significant ability to say no. is that position going to become more popular as any type of legislation moves forward? look, that is easy. but that is also, when we re talking about big tech in general for a long time. talking about. no one is out there saying that the u.s. government, that facebook should be banned. it is all about data harvesting, privacy. nevertheless, basically absolutely nothing has happened over the ten years or five years that we have been talking about this. and so by definition, it seems like the reasonable middle ground that everyone can come around to supporting. but nevertheless, i still find myself skeptical even of that. me too, however, look at what is happening abroad.
look at google. that is the issue, we don t even understand the data harvesting. we laugh about it like, something that i saw what i was driving by, and then i got a ad for later. before you go, i do want to ask you about twitter. elon musk very recently said that the company is now valued at 20 billion dollars. that is half, it is a huge drop from the 44 billion that it was about four. should this be a concern for us? here is the thing, we are all still using twitter. or most of us are, even if the interface is or. why is it worth so much was? i think people forget that elon musk did not buy this company with entirely his money. they were outside shareholders that we re looking at what appears to be a 50% loss on their equity, so that is why the sole counter elon forces in the next six months to year to our long it takes. shareholders. there are friends, sure, but there are limited partners in the venture capital firms that
for me the solution is not to ban an individual company, but to actually protect americans from this kind of data harvesting and usually when the united states is proposing a very measured move that has something to do with risk to national security one of the first thing that happens is congress receives a classified briefing. congress has not received a classified briefing. harris: the whole time she was talking she was getting somebody s attention. the ethics watchdogs are suggesting she must have a personal interest in stopping a possible ban of the china-owned app. she helped to advise a charity that pocketed $150,000 from tiktok s parent company. it is a matter of deep concern, conflict of interest. another calling it the kind of, quote, scummy washington stuff that everybody hates. ben. look, i think that there is