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Should the social media app TikTok be divested from its China-controlled parent company, ByteDance? That’s what the Committee on Foreign Investment recommended to President Donald Trump in 2020.
The president issued an executive order affirming the recommendation, but courts said that he’d exceeded his authority.
“In 2024, strong bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress passed legislation banning foreign adversaries like China from controlling media platforms in the United States,” Star Parker said on Straight Arrow News.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are concerned about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) control of ByteDance and what that means for us.
“Since ByteDance is controlled by the CCP, China effectively controls the algorithm that feeds users videos and they have access to the private data of millions of Americans,” Star said. “Congressman Michael Waltz, President-elect Trump’s designee to be National Security Advisor, has said, ‘We should not allow our greatest adversary to access 150 million Americans and their data.'”
President-elect Trump’s incoming press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, also expressed concerns about this.
“They are pushing algorithms that are very damaging to the intellectual curiosity and to the ideology of young Americans today,” Leavitt said last December.
What about free speech? Watch Star’s full segment below or at Straight Arrow News for more.
