Trump Jr. joins Triller and lashes out against TikTok, claiming the app is 'something that could haunt your kids forever'
Donald Trump Jr. in a video posted to Triller attacked TikTok and said it might "weaponize" the data of children who use it.Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, in a video Friday targeted TikTok, which is less than two weeks away from facing a ban in the US under his father's executive order.
In a video posted to Triller, a video-sharing app that has expressed interested in purchasing TikTok, Trump Jr. claimed TikTok could be "turning on your kid's video, listening in, turning on their mic at any random time not just when they're using the app." TikTok has repeatedly denied allegations that it provides any of its user data to the Chinese Communist Party, which in August took actions complicating its plans to sell US operations as a result of President Trump's executive orders against it.Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of President Donald Trump, on Friday posted on video-sharing app Triller, peddling unsubstantiated theories that TikTok is turning on users' cameras and microphones even when the app is closed, arguing TikTok is "something that could haunt your kids forever." "When you have an app like TikTok where the Chinese government could be turning on your kid's camera, turning on your kid's video, listening in, turning on their mic at any random time not just when they're using the app," Trump Jr. said in his first video on the platform, as first reported by"This goes so much further," he continued. "Having access to all your photos and contacts and emails and the spyware that's there. I mean this is something that could haunt your kids forever." Representatives for TikTok did not immediately return Business Insider's request for comment on Saturday. The social media platform, however, has repeatedly denied allegations that it shares American's user data with Chinese officials. Criticism over TikTok's Chinese ownership has been months-long and bipartisan. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, last month
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