Reports: US launches review of China-owned video app TikTok

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BREAKING: The U.S. government has launched a national-security review of TikTok, according to multiple published reports. The Chinese-owned video app is popular with millions of U.S. teens and young adults.

say that the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has opened an inquiry. Several senators have recently noted concerns about censorship and data collection on TikTok.

The Treasury Department, which houses CFIUS, says it does not comment on specific cases. TikTok says it cannot comment on ongoing regulatory processes but earning the trust of U.S. users and regulators is its highest priority. TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, acquired Musical.ly in 2017 and merged it into TikTok. Musical.ly operated out of offices in Shanghai and California.

 

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IngrahamAngle Associated Press -why does the wistleblower who is not a actual witness but is a someone told me witness have any relevance. Is not his opinion considered heresay.

DeeNimmin It should be ok. Facebook will probably buy it soon as the monopoly continues & creators are brought back to square one.

真是個好消息

DeeNimmin The US is the most ridiculous coward i ever heard of. Because tik tok is chinese they see it as a threat,a business threat loool

BREAKING: Normies knew this shit months ago. You need to hire younger journalists. The millennials are behind the times and too old. Life moves faster than snowflakes melt.

IngrahamAngle Somehow the implications of this escapes people, especially the ones looking at other things. Talk about interference.

jbtole2 TikTok is tracking Americans and their activities!

HongkongerView Good job 👍🏻👍🏻

audreygediman phoebeged

That makes sense. Chinese companies have to obey the China intelligence law that they have to turn in all data to the government for “national security” reason. It sounds worrying enough.

Feds filled with boomers

No different than Facebook or twitter.

Good, if you think the Chinese aren't up to something... you're a fool.

给华为打完广告后又给Tik Tok😀

Sensorship everywhere. No one is better than the other.

Good, they should investigate Anything China.

Oh boy!👀

IngrahamAngle TikTok probably copies everything to a Chinese cloud.

Don’t need to review. Ban Ban Ban!

IngrahamAngle Hey - Biden is a prophet - Biden tells African-American audience there going to put you all - back in chains - - but dang - now your chained by your nuts

REPORTS: US launches review of China-owned video app=TikTok.🙄🤔🥺🇨🇳

adamscrabble Ban it because its fuckin gay

Deleting that shit rn. Why was it not known that is was owned by the chinese? Wtf (yes i know FB is evil)

this should scare every parent!!

IngrahamAngle

IngrahamAngle Sorry, other than protection from abuse people under the age of 18 should not have any 'rights.' Think about it.

The same government that needed an Apple Genius to unlock the “Cyber Security Expert” Himself, Rudy’s iphone? LOL.

selectedwisdom

IngrahamAngle

Ought to do it earlier!

Platform is for females showing that they cut off them boobies. Disgusting platform. Nothing but lgbqt-lmnop people on there.

Yeah this isn’t politically motivated at all 😝

Look into Tom Cotton while you're at it. He's dirty with the foreign issues.

Uh oh, Melania must have caught Barron watching TikTok when he was supposed to be studying.

oh

I just went to delete TikTok but ended up watching 20 minutes of videos. Ha!

And why won't they do the same thing of facebook and twitter?

but facebook can do what it wants....

BarstoolRia how dare they?!?

Filthy scammers and low life's, in this case we all need to file a class action legal action on these guys and fast.

Translation: NSA hasn't yet found a way to undermine TikTok, and Congress has not yet received enough bribe money, so TikTok is unacceptable.

Green_Footballs Here comes that free market we've heard so much about

If tiktok can be banned for national security concerns, why couldn’t China ban Facebook and Twitter for the same reason?

ChristinaP tomsegura

YMHBlueBan J_Potter

two things: - safety of personal information - censorship

Well there going to love me as I a Huawei mobile and I have downloaded tictocdigital on androidcentral . Thanks America .

Poor China needs to run its facial recognition AI on something! Let it be!

let's get Rudy 'Cybersecurity' Giuliani onto that stat

Ahmed_Haque oh no buddy you ok?

HerbScribner

Get it out of here.

🤷‍♂️

stacyherbert Big Deal...Distraction

The bottom line is that the American government want the Chinese to only produce low cost, low margin, low technology consumer goods.

sry for ur los TheHentaiGuy420

So what?More dangerous than guns and marijuana?🤣🤣🤣

What the hell is wrong with our gov't, they literally have proof of Russian interference, and not a thing has been done but China sneezes and now tiktok is in hot water.

Hoes mad (26x)

Because hamster videos are so subversive.

ChristinaP oh no

popular or annoying my twitter feed With Cringe Videos

We need someone with a grasp of what is being used as apps created by our adversaries.

TyronGThomas _alexxclarke

Another distraction.

the feds are finally gonna figure out why good girls like bad guys

Hit or miss. I guess they never miss, huh?

Oh okay but we still allow Russians to pick apart our democracy via Facebook

Good, It needs to be Investigated

savebyprice

Lmfao what

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