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TikTok, Boom.

(TikTok, Boom.)

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Praha Prague Municipal Library – large hall, Mariánské nám. 1, Praha 1
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Marie Heřmanová, Digital Anthropologist
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Praha Bio Oko, Františka Křížka 460/15, Praha 7
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About the film

Is TikTok rightly considered the most popular social network of our time, or is it a Big Brother and a ticking time bomb designed to undermine democratic principles?

In 2020, the TikTok social network became the most downloaded mobile phone app. It has become a source of livelihood for many young people and has changed their lives for the better. But there are dirty practices behind the operations of ByteDance, the Chinese company that has dethroned the products of Silicon Valley's biggest corporations. A machine learning algorithm tracks users' activity, often young members of Generation Z, and offers them tailored content based on their data. But as large numbers of reports of human rights abuses begin to disappear and cases of discriminatory content moderation leak out, TikTok finds itself at the centre of a technological and political battle between the United States and China.

Title

TikTok, Boom.

Original Title

TikTok, Boom.

Original Language

English

Subtitles

English, Czech

Premiéra

Czech premiere

Year of Production

2022

Country of Origin

USA

Length

97 min.

Tags

Possibilities of the Future, Lifestyle, Media, North America

Shalini Kantayya
Director
Shalini Kantayya

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