Democratic lawmaker warns Americans about China’s surprising power TikTokThey say the social media app could become a communist country’s propaganda machine.
“Based on Chinese law, TikTok and ByteDance, which owns it, should be held accountable first and foremost to the Chinese Communist Party,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said in a report Tuesday. “They will collect the data of Americans and they can manipulate the videos they see on TikTok, which can become a huge propaganda machine for the Chinese Communist Party.”
Skeptics can compare videos Chinese users see on TikTok, compared to content seen by users around the world, which focuses on science, engineering and patriotism, explained the lawmaker.
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The girl is holding a smartphone with the logo of the short video application TikTok. ((Photo by Jens Kalaene/Image Alliance via Getty Images))
Warner told Fox News he proposed bipartisan legislation aimed at a rules-based, comprehensive model that would allow the commerce secretary or the administration to take action against the social media giant, including banning the app.
“We need a system that not only takes care of TikTok, but other future foreign technologies from countries like China that pose a national security threat,” he said.
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The senator said China has become “much more aggressive” in its searches and has banned social media platforms such as Facebook.
“My background was in technology, and I see them as a threat not just in social media applications or telecommunications, but in artificial intelligence, quantum computing … synthetic biology,” Warner said. Fox News.
“Those areas, I think, are all national security at this point, and if the United States and our friends aren’t an authoritarian regime dominating those technologies, I’ll sleep a lot better at night.” Communist Party of China”.
Warner said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) also believes TikTok poses a national security threat, and 12 senators — six Republicans and six Democrats — have backed his comprehensive approach against the social media app.
