The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)
The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)
Absolutely already a national security concern, but also technically already banned by the bill which banned TikTok.
Question is how hard they need to stroke Trump for it to be unenforceable.
What is the national security concern?
Psychological operations and warfare, mainly disinformation campaigns akin to TikTok used to sway political sentiment in favor of authoritarians such as Trump.
Equally bad: extreme data gathering, also akin to tiktok.
I guess. TikTok did raise awareness of the Gaza genocide and, by extension, create instability in the US. It also distanced the public from the US government’s closest ally, Israel.
https://www.theverge.com/features/761076/gaza-images-starvation-tiktok-ban
It directly promoted GOP leading up to 2024 and even Trump by name:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/06/tiktok-pro-republican-algorithm-2024-election
Then they did the exact same thing by promoting the AFD in Germany:
https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/tiktok-and-x-recommend-pro-afd-content-to-non-partisan-users-ahead-of-the-german-elections/
This has NOT distanced the USA from Israel; they have never been closer. The GOP are pushing bills that will combine Israel military with the USA’s.
Brother, according to that logic, YouTube is a national security risk. I was refering to things the American govt labels as a national security risk to protect corporate interests.
Considering their company leadership backs Republicans which are harmful to US national security, yes
YouTube is run by a company within the USA.
That does not compare to a company run by a hostile dictatorship’s military.
Nor has it had nearly the same impact: there was a 10 point shift among youth voters in favor of conservatives after TikTok, a complete reversal of a century old trend.
Your argument is that TikTok creates a national security risk by directing users to right or alt-right leaning views.
You are ignoring YT’s documented past of doing this exact thing because “China bad”.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/29/276000/a-study-of-youtube-comments-shows-how-its-turning-people-onto-the-alt-right/
YouTube also funneled German users to that same alt-right party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/world/europe/youtube-far-right-extremism.html
As an analogy:
If an American kills an American it’s a crime
If a Chinese op kills an American it’s warfare
Perhaps stick to killing yourselves instead