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A recent surge in support from young Americans for the Hamas terrorist group can be attributed predominantly to the social app TikTok, according to Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher, who described it as “the largest scale malign influence operation ever conducted,” as he accused the Chinese “digital fentanyl” of “brainwashing our youth against the country and our allies.”
Questioning how we’ve reached a point “where a majority of young Americans hold such a morally bankrupt view of the world” and where many “were rooting for terrorists who had kidnapped American citizens and against a key American ally, our closest ally in the Middle East,” Rep. Gallagher pointed to the source of where these individuals receive their “raw news” which informs them an “upside down view of the world.
“We know for a fact that the CCP uses TikTok to push its propaganda and censor views that diverge from the party line,” he said, noting that “reports have confirmed that TikTok spied on journalists who wrote negative stories about TikTok.” Drawing a historical parallel, the congressman warned about the potential risks of TikTok’s presence in the United States, arguing that TikTok serving as CCP spyware is a “best-case scenario.”
“Put differently, ByteDance and the CCP have decided that China’s children get spinach, and America’s get digital fentanyl,” he added.“e are absolutely hooked, with 16 percent of teens using it ‘almost constantly.’ Today, 69.7 percent of Americans aged 12–17, 76.2 percent aged 18–24, and 54 percent aged 25–34 use TikTok,” he wrote.
He also noted that top U.S. intelligence officials, including CIA Director William J. Burns and FBI Director Christopher Wray, have unequivocally warned about the national security threats posed by TikTok, citing concerns over pro-Hamas content and other issues.
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