Scripps News spoke with Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, about TikTok and national security.
Scripps News’ Joe St. George sat down with Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to discuss the national security threat from the social media app.
Warner is a supporter of the legislation that would require ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, to divest within 6 months or face a ban in the U.S.“Absolutely, the fact it got 352 votes in the House, all across the political spectrum, I think it shows the importance of this issue,” Warner said.“Chinese law, as of 2017, says any Chinese company, their first obligation is not to shareholders or customers, it is to the Chinese Communist Party,” Warner said.
Warner dived into how the data matters, and how silly videos now could come back to hurt users later.“Anyone who doesn’t think that the Communist Party can slightly shift the algorithm that decides which video you see comes up next — if they want, come election time in this country, to say, you know, Taiwan ought to be part of China,” Warner said.Warner said that he would be supportive of Steve Mnunchin, the former Treasury Secretary, forming a group of investors to buy the social media app.
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