Every once in a while, a new social app takes over and becomes massively popular, but something that makes TikTok unique from the others is the focus on dance. Today we’ll talk about what dance on this app looks like, how the global community is connecting on this application, and what are the potential personal and national security risks of using what seems to be an innocent video sharing platform.
With hard-core believers for and against, we’ll consider arguments on both sides. TikTok is one of the fastest growing and perhaps also one of the most controversial, with a tainted history of lawsuits under its former name Musical.ly. Especially with a possible ban in the U.S. and current bans in other countries, we wanted to have this conversation now, and we invited Leslie Scott Zanovich, cultural leader, change-maker, and founder of Youth Protection Advocates in Dance, to join the conversation.
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