China’s TikTok is reportedly launching a global “Youth Council” that involves 15 teenagers from around the world being tasked with advising the comunist psyop app on how to make the platform “safer.”
Republican lawmakers are attempting to ban the use of a Chinese-owned tutoring company by U.S. military service members and their families.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says the legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States unless its parent company ByteDance sells the social media platform “will benefit” the app’s users, adding that “TikTok needs to be an American company.”
The legislation recently passed by the House of Representatives regarding China’s TikTok app gives its parent company ByteDance six months to sell the social media platform before it faces a ban in the United States. Experts say that a sale in that short of an amount of time is unlikely.
Breitbart Editor-in-Chief and New York Times bestselling Breaking Biden author Alex Marlow said Monday on the “America First” podcast that TikTok was a cancer in the United States.
President of the GAI and a senior contributor to Breitbart News Peter Schweizer, the author of, Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, stated that if the House TikTok bill passes, ByteDance will make a profit on the sale of TikTok, and the reason they oppose a sale “is they don’t want to give up the control and the access to our kids.”
China-owned social media giant TikTok could soon be forced to cease operations in the United States if a recently passed bill in the House of Representatives becomes law. The bill is expected to face quite a fight to get through the Senate.
Shou Chew, the CEO of communist China’s TikTok, responded to the House of Representatives passing legislation that could ban the Chinese app in the United States unless Chinese tech giant ByteDance sells the social media platform within six months. “Protect your constitutional rights,” Chew ironically told U.S. TikTok users.
Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is reportedly building an investor group to buy the social media platform TikTok from its parent company, Chinese tech giant ByteDance.
The House on Wednesday passed legislation that would ban TikTok if they do not sell the company from its Chinese parent company.
A bill that would force controversial app TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent company ByteDance or get banned in the U.S. goes to a House vote on Wednesday.
Kellyanne Conway, the former senior Trump administration aide, is lobbying Congress against banning the controversial app TikTok.
Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has reportedly expressed interest in buying China’s TikTok amid talk of banning the app in the United States, given that its parent company is the Chinese tech giant ByteDance, which is beholden to the Chinese Communist regime.
Chinese government documents and restricted military journals show how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using social media like TikTok and Hollywood to target vulnerable young consumers and tear at the fabric of American culture, according to Peter Schweizer’s new book: “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.”
Former President Donald Trump says a ban of China’s TikTok app would only help Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook platform, which is the “true enemy of the people.” Although Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has shown an extreme leftist bias and a willingness to interfere in elections, Peter Schweizer has uncovered China Communist Party and Chinese military officials referring to TikTok as a “modern day Trojan Horse” and “information-driven mental warfare” aimed squarely at American teenagers.
A bipartisan bill could force Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell its popular video-sharing TikTok app within six months or face a ban from the United States.
China cites President Joe Biden’s campaign page on TikTok as evidence that the U.S. government has been lying about the dangers of the app.
The Chinese-owned social media company TikTok has denied advertisements for Peter Schweizer’s new book “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” deeming the ad too “political.”
The CCP is using TikTok as a “modern day Trojan Horse” to inject its propaganda into the minds of America’s youth, according to restricted Chinese military journals uncovered in Peter Schweizer’s new book: Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and 14 other Republican senators and representatives are urging President Joe Biden to delete his newly created TikTok account, given that the app is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
China’s TikTok claims it is expanding its initiatives to combat misinformation and covert influence campaigns leading up to the European Parliament elections in June.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Wednesday said there was a “hell of a coincidence” in how Shou Zi Chew became the CEO of TikTok the day after he brokered a deal with China.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told China’s TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew during a senate hearing on Wednesday that Tennessee is not going to be rolling out “the welcome mat” for a proposed company HQ in Memphis.
China’s TikTok said it has spent $1.5 billion developing an operation meant to convince U.S. lawmakers that it is safe for Americans to use the app. The company’s executives have also promised to wall-off U.S. user data and bring in engineers and third parties to verify the algorithm functions without interference from the Chinese Communist regime. TikTok, however, has so far failed to live up to its promises.
TikTok has restricted one tool researchers use to analyze popular videos, a move that follows a barrage of criticism directed at the social media platform about content related to the Israel-Hamas war.
A U.S. district judge struck down a legal challenge to a Texas law banning the Chinese app TikTok from government devices in the state.
TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance has reportedly massively ramped up its lobbying efforts amid scrutiny of its app’s harm to American teenagers and the company’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
A Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing revealed the “terrifying” possibility that the CCP could use TikTok data in military conflict.
Billionaire financier Jeff Yass has bet big on TikTok, and as a top donor to GOP lawmakers, he is fighting to stop a ban of the Chinese-owned app. The billionaire described the app causing chaos amongst American teenagers in glowing terms: “TikTok is about free speech and innovation, the epitome of libertarian and free market ideals. The idea of banning TikTok is an anathema to everything I believe.”
President Joe Biden has a “TikTok army” funded by billionaire Democrat donor George Soros, who has allocated hundreds of thousands of dollars toward the cause of spreading leftist propaganda on the China-owned platform to its massive audience of American teens.
European regulators hit the China-owned app TikTok with a $368 million fine on Friday for failing to protect children’s privacy on the platform. This is reportedly first time that the Chinese app has been punished over Europe’s strict data privacy rules.
In yet another sign of the Biden Administration’s determination to control, censor, and spy on American social media users, the draft of a proposed deal between Chinese-owned TikTok and the Biden administration shows the latter requesting extraordinary authority over the platform.
A draft of China-owned TikTok’s plan to avoid a ban reportedly gives the United States government oversight power over the platform.
Nearly half of American adults support a ban of the Chinese-owned app TikTok, a social media platform wildly popular among young people, which has shown itself to be a national security threat and a danger to children and teens.
There are many concerns about the China-owned app TikTok, such as its effects on mental health and it being a national security risk, but researchers are also interested in how it impacts kids’ brains after they binge-watch the app’s nonstop stream of addicting videos. They have nicknamed the result “TikTok Brain,” and it is impacting the lives of young Americans.
China-owned TikTok is pushing a slew of Chinese propaganda advertisements to millions of Europeans in recent months. The ads tout everything from support of Chinese coronavirus lockdowns to presenting the Xinjiang region, where Uyghur minorities are forced to work in concentration camps, as a wonderful tourist destination.
A majority of Americas see China-owned TikTok as a threat to the national security of the United States, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.
A former ByteDance executive says the Chinese Communist Party was able to access the personal data of TikTok users in Hong Kong in 2018.
TikTok Inc filed a lawsuit against the state of Montana’s ban on the short-form video platform, arguing the ban violates the First Amendment.
Montana has become the first U.S. state to ban the China-owned app TikTok. Governor Greg Gianforte (R) announced Wednesday that he has singed legislation in order to protect his state’s residents from “the Chinese Communist Party.”