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for 18—year—olds, rishi sunak also did his first video on the conservative partys tiktok account. hi, tiktok, sorry to be breaking into your usual politics—free feed, but im making a big announcement today and ive been told that a lot of you already have some views on it. so, first thing — no, im not sending everyone off to join the army. what i am doing is proposing a bold new model of national service for 18—year—olds. well, i want to bring in shona ghosh from bloomberg. ...

I think it was kind - of once—in—a—lifetime career—defining stuff in a way, which is a peculiar— thing as a nonexecutive - of a company because youre not an executive, but it felt - as though i did personally kind of cross into being a bit- of an executive because i was chairing the nomination - and governance committee, when you have to worryj about how people come on and off the board - and so we firstly were thinking about how to get elon . on the board and then off the board, and i...

Of security concerns. they did. and i wonder if thats part of the reason that both labour and the tories have been so slow in really getting in on tiktok as a way to campaign or get votes, because if you compare it, we heard about new zealand, but if you look at argentina, if you look even at in america and how the democrats use it, you know, it feels like were a bit behind also some european countries on that, which might go back to security. i think its a really interesting medium because in t...

At our peril and that shift i isjust interesting, i how quickly that can happen and how its hard. as a political party to keep across all these different pieces of the puzzle. - its been so swift, i remember how important twitter was for journalism, and now i feel like it, you know, i dont look at it nearly as much as i used to. stay with us, please, because timandra harkness, your new book looks at how our anxieties about the power of big tech might be unfounded. its called technology is not th...

Changed. when it comes to the us election, the election here, how much are you worrying about the impact x, twitter, could have? 0r actually, is it less of an important medium than it was in previous elections already? it feels as though it is less| important, partly because, you know, despite really reorganising the cost - base, the revenues have| clearly collapsed as well. and advertisers have left i the platform, which again, means that you dont get. the quality loop that weve been discussing...

Well to young professionals. well see if that pays off in a months time. but tiktok is where actually you probably get the most screen time if you can get it right. and martha lane fox, erm, katy was mentioning the role of x, formerly twitter, might play in our general election here and how the parties use it. i mean, you were on the board. how much has twitter, now xs, public role changed, do you think, since elon musk bought the company? i would say a great deal. erm, i remember in my intervie...