As the 2024 election draws closer, politicians are facing a TikTok paradox.
TikTok on government devices, and ByteDance and the U.S. government are back at the negotiating table after a contentious debate over
the app’s future in the United States. TikTok has repeatedly dismissed politicians’ claims that the data it collects from U.S. users is siphoned by the Chinese government, and government officials haveCalling it “one of the most dangerous social media apps there is,” Haley said TikTok can access users’ contacts, financial information, emails and text messages, but there is no proof for that. A
by The Washington Post found Facebook and other U.S.-made apps gathered just as much data as TikTok, if not more. She and Ramaswamy began shouting over each other as she criticized his general stance toward China.“I have a radical idea for the Republican Party,” he said. “We need to win elections. And part of how we win elections is reaching the next generation of young Americans where they are.”
Yet even as Ramaswamy pushes forward on TikTok, he repeatedly said that children under the age of 16 should not “be using addictive social media.”on whether his critical stance toward U.S. tech companies could give China an edge. “We’re not saying you don’t want to do business, but you want it to be a free market,” DeSantis said, pushing back against the moderators. “And right now they’re monopolies.”
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