Is Marques Brownlee the Most Powerful Man in Tech? [VIDEO]

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Trevor and Christiana chat with YouTuber Marques Brownlee, professionally known as MKBHD and famous for his incredibly popular videos reviewing technology devices. The trio discusses how to survive and thrive in this era of nichification, fake outrage on the internet and its impact on creators, and whether AI is experiencing a PR nightmare or if in fact it will actually be able to kill us in our sleep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I'll tell you one of the funniest stories actually that I've heard from the halls of Congress.
0:04.7	You know, in and around the TikTok ban, all these Congress people, the senators and, you know,
0:08.6	they're like, we're going to ban TikTok.
0:11.0	And they have this huge meeting about TikTok, right?
0:14.0	Apparently what happens is one of the sentences goes to like one of the people at TikTok and is like,
0:19.1	this app is disgusting.
0:21.2	It's making people hate other people and it's,
0:23.8	it's anti-American and it's all of this.
0:26.0	And then he goes, and look at this.
0:27.8	Look at the salacious content that it's showing people.
0:30.9	And he pulls up his for you page, right?
0:33.6	And he goes, look at the things that it shows you.
0:37.0	Children are seeing
0:38.2	these images.
0:39.2	And then the person
0:40.1	from TikTok
0:40.5	very kindly
0:41.5	had to say,
0:43.1	no,
0:43.6	I'm sorry,
0:44.7	sir,
0:46.7	that algorithm
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