Two years after then-President Donald Trump said he would ban TikTok in the United States through an executive order, the short-form video platform is once again under scrutiny in Washington. And the underlying issue remains largely the same: TikTok’s ties to China through its parent company, Bytedance. The criticism stems from a Buzzfeed News report in June that said some US user data has been repeatedly accessed from China. The renewed pressure on TikTok comes as the platform’s influence continues to grow in the United States. “There are real national security questions being asked,” Sherman added, but there are also issues with galvanizing much of the conversation around anti-China rhetoric.

Source: CNN August 02, 2022 14:57 UTC