EXCLUSIVE: House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said he “can’t think of a greater propaganda tool' for China than TikTok, the app some are looking to ban.
Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, says TikTok is like an ‘electronic version’ of the Chinese ‘spy balloon’ and says the only way he would trust TikTok is if it’s sold to an American company with ‘reprogrammed’ software.said he"can’t think of a greater propaganda tool" for China than TikTok.
U.S. officials and lawmakers have warned that the Chinese Communist Party could compel the company to turn over American users’ data or expose them to propaganda. CFIUS has been looking into TikTok since 2019, and in 2020, it unanimously recommended that ByteDance divest from TikTok's U.S. operations, and it has been threatening to ban TikTok until that happens.
Chew has argued that TikTok is not beholden to any one country, though executives in the past have admitted that Chinese officialsHowever, TikTok claims the new initiative keeps U.S. user data safe, and told Fox News Digital that data is managed"by Americans, in America."
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