Mark Zuckerberg may be TikTok’s most prolific hater, but tech leaders across the board have been complaining about the app’s groundbreaking success as of late. To watch Big Tech gang up against TikTok, we need look no further than Vox’s Code Conference, where many interviewees and panelists brought up TikTok as a major threat — despite the company not being present at the conference in any form.
Scott Galloway, a professor of Marketing at New York University, was most vocal about his disdain for the short-form video app, reportedly calling for it to be banned entirely. (An episode of Real Time with Bill Maher in which Galloway appeared also aired this weekend, in which he makes it abundantly clear why he cares about this to such an extreme: “Are we down with an organization that wants to undermine America controlling what our children see?” he asks.)
