TikTok emerges as Silicon Valley's scapegoat in Washington

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TikTok could provide what Silicon Valley CEOs needs right now — a Chinese-owned foil to divert attention from U.S. platforms like Facebook and Twitter

"We [have] never been asked by the Chinese government to remove any content, and we would not do so if asked," she wrote.

Still, the lawmaker told reporters after the hearing that he's not inclined to give Facebook and other tech heavyweights a pass in the face of Chinese competitors. The anxiety around TikTok centers in part on fears that the data it collects on its U.S. user base could make its way to the Chinese government. "When aggregated, the data could be useful in improving Chinese machine learning tools to help China better understand, predict and manipulate the behavior of Americans," said Jim Baker, a former FBI general counsel who is now director of national security and cybersecurity at the R Street Institute.

 

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