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Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance technology journalist and author of YouTubers: How YouTube shook up TV and created a new generation of stars (Canbury Press, 2019) and TikTok Boom: China's Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media. He is on Twitter @stokel.
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