{"id":804843,"date":"2020-03-03T15:58:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=961657"},"modified":"2020-03-03T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:58:48","slug":"tiktok-is-pulling-out-of-sxsw-amid-the-coronavirus-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/tiktok-is-pulling-out-of-sxsw-amid-the-coronavirus-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Is Pulling Out of SXSW Amid the Coronavirus Scare"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TikTok<\/a> is backing out of Austin\u2019s South By Southwest global music-tech festival, the company has confirmed to Rolling Stone<\/em>. Joining Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>, TikTok \u2014 which has been exploding in both user growth and employee count around the world in recent months \u2014 is the latest major tech company to pull out of the March festival in light of safety concerns from the ongoing coronavirus.<\/p>\n

\u201cTikTok has decided not to participate in SXSW<\/a> this year. While we think the risk is relatively low, we are erring on the side of caution as we prioritize safety for our team, creators, partners, artists, and brands,\u201d the company says in a statement to Rolling Stone.<\/i> \u201cWe are looking at a variety of alternative ways to bring parts of the previously scheduled experience to audiences in creative new forms.\u201d<\/p>\n

SXSW said in a statement last week that the festival had seen a \u201chandful of cancellations\u201d because of the coronavirus, but it hadn\u2019t seen more any cancellations than usual. Among those was China Gathering, a platform that\u2019s brought Chinese entrepreneurs and musicians to SXSW for the past three festivals.<\/p>\n

But more than <\/span>20,000 people have called for the event<\/span><\/a> to be canceled via online petition, citing the risks of gathering a mass-scale global community in one place. In the last week, Facebook and Twitter have both pulled their employees from the event, causing the cancelation of several dozen speakers and many more attendees. <\/span><\/p>\n

When asked for comment on TikTok\u2019s Tuesday announcement, a SXSW spokesperson directed Rolling Stone <\/em>to the festival\u2019s coronavirus frequently asked questions page.\u201dRegarding the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: SXSW is working closely on a daily basis with local, state, and federal agencies to plan for a safe event,\u201d the site reads. \u201cAs a result of this dialogue and the recommendations of Austin Public Health, we are proceeding with the 2020 event with the health and safety of our attendees, staff, and volunteers as our top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

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TikTok is backing out of Austin\u2019s South By Southwest global music-tech festival, the company has confirmed to Rolling Stone. Joining Facebook and Twitter, TikTok \u2014 which has been exploding in both user growth and employee count around the world in recent months \u2014 is the latest major tech company to pull out of the March […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 02:20:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}