The WSJ set up 31 TikTok accounts registered to teenagers to see what the algorithm would serve them up. What they saw after thousands of videos was a never ending stream content related to sex, drugs, and eating disorders. TikTok’s algorithm is engagement based, so spend any amount of time on a video or re-watch it, and get ready for a flood of similar content. The company uses 10,000 people and other algorithms to police content, but the app does not restrict certain videos based on age. Georgia Wells, reporter at the WSJ, joins us for how TikTok serves up videos to minors.




Next, the much anticipated trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of blood testing company Theranos, kicked off this week with opening arguments. She has been accused of knowing that the company’s new tech and blood tests were unreliable, harming patients, and overstating the company’s performance. The prosecution is trying to portray here as a fraud who lied and cheated to get money, and the defense is trying to humanize Holmes and saying that Theranos failed as a business and that failure is not a crime. Ben Popken, senior business reporter at NBC News, joins us for the opening of this trial expected to last three months.

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