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China could use social media app TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections, the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, has told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing.
Asked by Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi if China’s ruling Communist party (CCP) would use TikTok to influence the elections, Haines said “we cannot rule out that the CCP would use it”.
Lawmakers have long voiced concerns that the Chinese government could access user data or influence what people see on the app, including pushing content to stoke US political divisions.
Right? The algorithms are all designed to stoke outrage. Why don't we do something like the EU and pass legislation that applies to all social media companies, not just demonize certain ones. What am I missing here?
While other companies also have issues, TikTok goes further by having strong connection to the PRC:
Lawmakers have long voiced concerns that the Chinese government could access user data or influence what people see on the app, including pushing content to stoke US political divisions.
Facebook, Twitter and Google are at least as obedient to the whims of the fascist Netanyahu and Modi governments (not to mention the parts of the US government that routinely violate the rights of its own citizens and people from all other countries) as Tiktok is to the Faux-Socialist totalitarian regime of China.
Trump has now signaled he is against banning TikTok, so I expect any attempts to do so will fail in the House after all of his followers in Congress suddenly U-turn on their earlier stance.
The MAGA crowd is likely now going to spin this as an attempt by Biden to stifle the free market and control the messaging during the election.
China, Russia, North Korea, Israel, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and on and on and on... are using ALL social media (especially American social media) to influence EVERY American election for the past several years.
If it took you until now to realize that, it's way too late.
Do you think that wealthy citizens can't be bought off by hostile foreign governments? Neither is better - we need actual regulation rather than worrying about a single company.
The same way that Russia used Twitter and meta properties to interfere in the last few elections? And the way they will inevitably do it again in this coming election?
US legislators are incompetent and blatantly dishonest about their intentions once again.
Hell, we already know China used Facebook to do this during the last American midterms (and has purchased all sorts of data from FB), but since they have an older user base that lawmakers figure is more likely to vote than TikTok-ers it's not getting singled out for this special treatment
They could, certainly. What is the evidence that they actually are engaged in psyops campaigns though? This is a common belief but I haven’t seen a shred of evidence for it. If it exists, someone please share.
so rather than running someone that could organically capture more of the gen z vote, they're banning their most popular form of communication because the old man wanted another term. awesome