Former Vice President Mike Pence is urging Congress and President Joe Biden to take action against Chinese Communist Party-controlled TikTok.
“Allowing TikTok to continue operating in the United States while under CCP control is simply unacceptable,” Pence wrote in an op-ed published by Fox News. “We would never have let Russia run the nightly news during the Cold War, and we certainly can’t let China do the same now. Allowing TikTok to continue to spew CCP-sanctioned propaganda poisoning the minds of American children is just wrong. Enough is enough.”
The op-ed from Pence comes as Congress is set to vote Wednesday on the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which will force TikTok’s parent company, Chinese-based ByteDance, to sell the company or face being banned in the United States.
TikTok, which is already under criminal investigation for allegedly spying on…
