# Professor Scott Galloway shares his perspective on how the coronavirus pandemic has boosted already dominant media platforms such as Facebook

1 Faculty News August 4, 2020 ![New York Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035440.gif?itok=tfYuio90)>

Excerpt from [NY Mag](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/are-tiktok-security-fears-misplaced.html) -- "One company that came up repeatedly during the show was TikTok. Swisher and [Galloway](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway) spoke with Vanessa Pappas, TikTok’s general manager, about the Chinese company’s tumultuous week, during which President Trump threatened to ban it, then endorsed Microsoft snapping it up — and the intense scrutiny the company now receiving from all sides."

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