In 2022, President Joe Biden signed an act banning the use of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on all federal government devices. But on Sunday, Biden’s presidential campaign shared a TikTok video on the platform.
Biden appeared on the social media platform for the first time in a 27-second video answering a few questions about the Super Bowl.
At best, the Biden campaign’s decision to join TikTok sends a mixed message to the American people; at worst, it gives China more access to Americans’ data, including the president’s.
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is headquartered in Beijing and is subject to Chinese law that requires companies to make users’ data available to the Chinese Communist Party. That’s why Biden banned the app from federal government devices in the first place.
According to a report released about a year ago by The…
