
What’s Behind the Bipartisan Attack on TikTok?
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Politics of TikTok
The main concern that we're hearing from the Biden administration and many members of Congress is security. Their fear is that TikTok is sending all of your data to China where it is sucked up and monitored by some Beijing-based spy for the general Communist Party of China. I think that actually, there are several different angles to this. But before we're too dismissive, in fact, American-owned social media has not been such an innocent player at all.
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