Senator Mark Warner criticized President Biden for his reelection campaign joining TikTok, expressing concerns about Chinese data access and algorithm manipulation.
Several GOP senators, including Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst, and Marco Rubio, also raised national security worries, citing TikTok as a tool for Chinese propaganda and data theft.
Sen. Warner said, “I think at the end of the day, the Chinese Communist Party can not only get access to the data, but also, more importantly, can potentially drive the algorithms in terms of what you’re seeing.”
TikTok is a spy app for the Chinese Communist Party.
It's used to push propaganda on American kids and steal data.
It's shameful that Biden is embracing TikTok to compensate for bad polls driven by his mental decline.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) February 12, 2024
“I’m a little worried about a mixed message,” he continued.
Sen. Tom Cotton wrote, “TikTok is a spy app for the Chinese Communist Party. It’s used to push propaganda on American kids and steal data. It’s shameful that Biden is embracing TikTok to compensate for bad polls driven by his mental decline.”
Sen. Joni Ernst added, “TikTok was banned from all federal government devices because it’s a threat to our national security. That didn’t stop the Biden campaign from joining the CCP’s dangerous propaganda app.”
TikTok was banned from all federal government devices because it’s a threat to our national security.
That didn’t stop the Biden campaign from joining the CCP’s dangerous propaganda app.https://t.co/XJFCLqNpAn
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) February 12, 2024
Rubio highlighted how TikTok stores sensitive American data in China, potentially undermining U.S. businesses.
Sen. Rubio said, “TikTok’s public-policy chief blatantly lied under oath when he denied US data is stored in China.”
“ByteDance, TikTok’s China-based parent company, was caught in October using the app to spy on American journalists,” he added.
“Almost a third of the country uses TikTok semi-regularly, who, for that matter, will even be aware of American goods on the market when TikTok’s algorithm begins — as it surely will — to favor Chinese sellers?” he continued.
Sen. Rubio wrote, “China’s totalitarian regime hates the United States and is bent on displacing us as the world’s greatest power.”
“If TikTok users believe their sensitive data are safe in Beijing’s hands — that Beijing wouldn’t use those data to influence, coerce, extort or spy on them in the case of a geopolitical conflict — they need to think again,” he continued.
He emphasized the threat posed by China’s totalitarian regime and its ambitions for global dominance.
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