Washington S Inaction On Tiktok Is Beijing S Gain Opinion
In the last few months, we have learned that at least 300 employees at TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, previously worked for Chinese-controlled media—and some still do. Leaked audio from internal meetings showed that U.S. user data had been repeatedly accessed from CCP-controlled mainland China. And scarier still, a Chinese-based team planned to use TikTok to monitor the personal locations of certain American citizens. In 1950s Cold War America, the potential of a foreign communist government subverting and infiltrating American society was known as the “Red Scare....