Reuters: FBI chief says TikTok 'screams' of US national security concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's government could use TikTok to control data on millions of American users, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying the Chinese-owned video app "screams" of security concerns.
Wray told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to U.S. security that the Chinese government could also use TikTok to control software on millions of devices and drive narratives to divide Americans over Taiwan or other issues.
"Yes, and I would make the point on that last one, in particular, that we're not sure that we would see many of the outward signs of it happening if it was happening," Wray said of concerns China could feed misinformation to users.
"This is a tool that is ultimately within the control of the Chinese government - and it, to me, it screams out with national security concerns," Wray said.
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17 comments:
Hanoi Jane is a bigger threat than China.
She came out as pro murder of conservatives.
This admin is all about countering dangerous misinformation so I suspect this will be dealt with in no time at all.
If it's a national security threat then don't let any govt employee with a national security clearance use it. We've apparently already done that. What Wray wants, however, is broader than that. He wants to stamp out any social media that isn't under complete govt control without outright admitting to being every bit as censorious and totalitarian as the Chinese govt. God forbid the average American find out that the USAID controlled puppets in Taiwan are currently losing ground electorally. That might "divide" us.
TikTok is a threat to national security.
I am not a crackpot.
we're going to hell in a handbasket
Everything is almost going to Hell in a handbasket.
Biden Demetia
Kamala Aphasia
McCarthy for president this summer!
They way things are now with our intel agencies and the FBI... If they say it is black, I start to think that it is white or a shade of grey.
Due to their own past actions , they are not to be trusted.
My son's girlfriend has a 13 year old son. He has a phone. I watch him flipping through tick toc videos like a maniac. He can't stop. Parents do it and let their young-uns do it. and the pill popping like they are m&m's.
Russia and later China began pumping money into media academia and politicians and have worked to destroy the standard American ethos. Now China just has to give Americans, Americans who no longer know they have a soul, access to things like tick tock and fentanyl. The human being is such an amazing creature but not when we are poisoning are bodies, minds and souls with Chinese self destructive psyops tools. half of this country seems to be a death cult.
Tiktok is destroying facebook, google, instagram, youtube by taking a huge chunk of the ads money. This is the real reason.
your words bear weight
which are all controllable by the gov.
not to mention the gang-stalking and chupacabras
What's TikTok? Heard of it but never used it. Do yourself a favor and UNPLUG. Turn it all off, and try to be you know a human being for a change. Social media is a cancer..
Wray has zero credibility.
I enjoy Tik Tok for the sleazy young women dancing and jiggling. What's wrong with that?
my watch goes tik tok
are the Chinese listeninbg?
My MAGA hat is made in China! Dopes the Chinese govt control my data from my hat?
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