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TikTok goes to Washington

The Vergecast

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The Government's Concerns About TikTok

Jack Dorsey is the CEO of TikTok, an app that allows users to dance on their smartphones. Lawmakers are concerned about foreign influence operations and data collection by Chinese government. But there's no evidence so far that China is currently operating some kind of foreign malign influence campaign on TikTok. The company has also been accused of tracking journalists through its service.

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