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The TikTok deal puts even more media in the hands of the super-rich | Margaret Sullivan

Media | The Guardian · Margaret Sullivan · last updated

Trump is clearing the way for US investors to control a wildly popular platform where millions get their news

In 2020, only a tiny fraction of Americans got news from TikTok. These days, that number has soared to one in five.

For young adults, those figures are much higher, with almost half of adults under 30 getting news there, according to the Pew Research Center.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture

 

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