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The Justice Department and FTC filed a complaint alleging TikTok and its parent company obtained children’s data without parental consent.

‘TikTok is the Chinese Communist Party’s way to feed America’s youth their propaganda and collect data on all TikTok users,’ Mr. Pence said.

Bidding for a carveout of TikTok’s US operations would undoubtedly begin in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

‘Callers like this who communicate threats against elected officials could be committing a federal crime,’ Sen. Thom Tillis says.

‘TikTok is a threat to national security, which is why we are trying to force TikTok to separate from ByteDance.’

‘What we’re after is a separation from TikTok from its parent company ByteDance, and by extension, the CCP,’ Rep. Mike Gallagher says.

The bill is about ensuring China’s communist regime ‘cannot weaponize the app against Americans and their government,’ the lawmakers wrote.

Mr. Chew fails to give a clear answer to several of Sen. Cotton’s questions, including his thoughts on the leader of the Chinese Communist Party.

Article 7 of Beijing’s National Intelligence Law obligates Chinese citizens, organizations, and institutions to support the CCP in intelligence work.

Many high-level executives have reportedly transferred from ByteDance to TikTok since the start of 2023.

Sen. Jim Risch’s letter to the FTC calls for action against TikTok’s potential influence on American youth and its ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The letter highlights concerns about data privacy and the app’s role in spreading CCP propaganda, urging prompt response and safeguarding measures.

“What Xi does in China is a good precedent for what he wants to do in other countries—surveillance, and control,” said James Lewis.