On NBC’s “MTP Now” on Monday, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) responded to President Joe Biden’s campaign’s acquisition of a TikTok account, saying, “Our China-based employees… I don’t have an account on my personal device.” “It was and is possible to manipulate TikTok’s underlying algorithms and access U.S. user data in ways contrary to TikTok’s claims,” Biden’s own FBI Director Christopher Wray said. That’s why I said the app has security issues.
“I’m not going to tell the president how to communicate. That’s not my prerogative,” Krishnamoorthi said. I don’t have a TikTok account on my device either, and the reason is very simple: TikTok is owned by a company called ByteDance. has now heard from various government officials under oath in repeated public hearings to explain how China-based employees can manipulate both the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Party of China. It says it’s still possible to exploit TikTok’s underlying algorithms and access U.S. user data in ways contrary to TikTok’s claims. That’s why Chris Wray ultimately However, he said that TikTok screams “”.National security concerns.So I will continue to monitor the situation closely and work on it in a bipartisan manner. ”
host Ryan Nobles asked.[I]Isn’t it a bit hypocritical for the president to unilaterally push for a ban on government-owned phones and at the same time amplify him and his campaign on this platform?”
Mr. Krishnamoorthi replied: I think it’s another thing to do it on a personal device or a campaign device. But at the end of the day, I want to give the Biden administration the power through this bill to actually force a sale of TikTok. I don’t want TikTok to be banned. …But we don’t want TikTok to be owned by a company that benefits from a hostile regime. ”
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