Dozens of states are imposing bans on the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok as a way of combatting Chinese influence while President Biden demurs on the issue.
Fox News contributor Mike Pompeo joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss how the U.S. has responded to the Chinese spy flights.continue to escalate, dozens of states are imposing bans on the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok as a way of combating Chinese influence while President Biden demurs on the issue.since the U.S. earlier this month shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had crossed from Alaska to South Carolina and three other unidentified flying objects over the U.
banning the use of TikTok. The announcement came after Abbott banned the video sharing platform on state devices in December.In total, 30 states have banned TikTok on some or all government-issued devices and networks, the Daily Wire reported. The vast majority have been Republican-led, but some blue states have imposed similar bans.
At the federal level, meanwhile, President Biden has wavered on whether Washington should ban TikTok. "Tik Tok is nothing more than digital fentanyl, full of harmful content that targets our children and spies on the American people," Michael Joyce, communications director of the Republican State Leadership Committee, told Fox News Digital."With no direction from Joe Biden, who is incapable of preventing the Chinese Communist Party from spying on the U.S., state Republicans across the country are working fervently to stop China from spying on our state government officials.
Rep. Mike Gallagher , chair of the new Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, has also called for a nationwide TikTok ban.
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