This article argues that TikTok, a popular social media platform owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, poses a serious security threat to the United States.
When Trump descended his golden escalator in 2015, the Chinese Communist Party was still benefiting from the United States’ failure to see its brutal regime for what it was — as well as the naïve American hope that integrating the PRC into the global community would yield ideological moderation. Trump saw through this illusion, won the presidency and in so doing opened the eyes of the rest of the political class.
Why we must expose the criminal fraud of those behind Biden's disastrous presidencyFarewell to Justin Trudeau — the wokest man ever to wear blackface — taken down by his own virtue-signaling Last year, President Biden signed a bill that would ban the popular social media platform TikTok in the US if it’s not sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, by Jan. 19.“We did go on TikTok and we had a great response, we had billions of views,” Trump boasted last month.To the contrary, Mr. President-elect, that sucker has got to go.Brandon Wales, the former executive director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told the Journal that the infiltrations were “designed to ensure they prevail by keeping the US from projecting power, and inducing chaos at home” in the event of such a conflict. It’s proof that Trump had it right the first time: The PRC is a malicious actor with designs on supplanting America as the world’s preeminent power.Because it’s subject to Chinese law, ByteDance can be — and probably already has been — compelled to turn user data over to the CCP at a moment’s notice.Many high-ranking directors at the company are alumni of Chinese state media outlets. It even has an internal CCP Committee headed by Zhang Fuping, the vice president and editor-in-chief of its Chinese operation, who has called for the app’s algorithm to be informed by the “correct political direction”
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