TIt has been established that the TikTok app collects large amounts of personal data about everyone who uses it, and that Chinese law requires TikTok’s parent company to share all data with the Chinese Communist Party. It is a fact.
A new study by the Rutgers University Network Infection Research Institute finds that TikTok not only collects information about Americans to provide to China, but also suppresses content that is inconvenient to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Researchers found that content featuring hashtags related to subjects such as the China-India conflict over Kashmir, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and the Uyghur genocide was lower on TikTok compared to other social media platforms such as Instagram. I found that much less.
For example, on Instagram, there were 2.2 posts featuring #TaylorSwift for every TikTok post, while on Instagram there were 206 posts featuring #HongKongProtests for every TikTok post. Similar ratios were seen in #StandWithKashmir, #FreeUyghurs and #DalaiLama.
The merits of the investigation cannot be denied, as TikTok used a similar method last month to demonstrate that its platform is not biased against Israel.
“We assess that content on TikTok is likely to be amplified or suppressed based on alignment with Chinese government interests,” the report concludes. “I can’t believe this can happen organically.”
TikTok is not a harmless video app. It’s a major source of news for Gen Z, and not coincidentally, they’re also the only generation to say they’re not proud to be American.
Congress must act to stop America’s most dangerous foreign enemy from spying on our young people and poisoning their minds. Bipartisan bill introduced to ban TikTok from mobile devices, with President Joe Biden indicating he is open to signing legislation that would create a process to address national security threats from foreign goods and services did.
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Giving more power to the executive branch is rarely the best solution to a problem. But the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense should already be assessing the threat posed by TikTok and Huawei’s products and services.
Either way, the threat posed by TikTok is well established, and it’s time for Congress to eliminate the danger.