After Getting In Bed With TikTok, Will
Biden Ignore Its National Security Threat?
Posted By: RockyTCB, 11/28/2022 5:58:46 AM
"I think Donald Trump was right, I mean, TikTok is an enormous threat.” That was Sen. Mark Warner — a Democrat — talking about the popular Chinese-owned social media app. Warner, along with an increasing number of national security experts, says that the innocuous-seeming video-sharing service poses the dangers to national security that Trump warned about years ago. “The ability for China to have undue influence is, I think, a much greater challenge and a much more immediate threat than any kind of actual, armed conflict,” Warner said. FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress earlier this month
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That was Sen. Mark Warner — a Democrat — talking about the popular Chinese-owned social media app. Warner, along with an increasing number of national security experts, says that the innocuous-seeming video-sharing service poses the dangers to national security that Trump warned about years ago.
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