66: The next Facebook will be Chinese

Bytedance, formerly known as Jinri Toutiao, is on deck for discussion this week. Beginning from pure textual content and recommendation, Bytedance has seemingly found the key to human attention. While this makes for a great product, and compelling business, whether they can make it in the US market is still unclear. Links Toutiao's overseas platform is delivering fake news, but its problems run much deeper than that Tencent and ByteDance founders argue on WeChat Moments about Douyin ByteDance rumored to reach $75 billion valuation after closing pre-IPO financing round Bytedance's teen protection problem Hosts John Artman , @knowsnothing , TechNode Matthew Brennan , @mbrennanchina ChinaChannel Podcast information iTunes RSS feed China Tech Talk.com Music: "Theme from Penguins on Parade" by Lee Rosevere , Music for Podcasts 3

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