The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using TikTok as a tool for “cognitive warfare” against the United States, according to Rep. Mike Gallagher.
The CCP is developing cognitive warfare strategies to influence public opinion and reduce resistance to its actions.
TikTok, despite denial, is suggested to be taking direction from the CCP, censoring and “heating” content at its request. (Trending: Bombshell Email Uncovered Between Joe Biden And Hunter)
The platform’s potential to manipulate public opinion and influence crucial moments, such as elections, is a deep concern, with the CCP aiming to use it for ideological control.
“The CCP calls it ‘cognitive domain warfare,’ part of their larger political warfare strategy,” said Rep. Gallagher.
“Cognitive warfare is not something we tend to think about here in the West. Sure, we have ideas like soft power, but they’re not a national strategy,” he continued.
Adding, “On the ‘smokeless battlefield’ of people’s minds, we don’t have a standing military at all.”
The Pentagon’s 2022 China Military Power Report warns, “As the PLA seeks to expand the reach of its influence operations around the world and to seize information dominance on the battlefield, it is researching and developing the next evolution of psychological warfare called cognitive domain operation[s] (CDO) that leverages subliminal messaging, deep fakes, overt propaganda, and public sentiment analysis.”
“The goal of CDO is to achieve what the PLA refers to as ‘mind dominance,’ defined as the use of propaganda as a weapon to influence public opinion to effect change in a nation’s social system, likely to create an environment favorable to China and reduce civilian and military resistance to PLA actions,” continues the report.
“In Xi Jinping’s view, the war has already started on the most important battlefield: your mind,” cautioned Rep. Gallagher.
“In the best-case scenario, TikTok is CCP spyware—that’s why so many state and national governments have banned it on official phones,” suggested Gallagher.
“In the worst-case scenario, TikTok is perhaps the largest scale malign influence operation ever conducted,” he concluded.
There are concerns about the app causing “absolute chaos” in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
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