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TikTok’s Data Security Risks and the App’s Pernicious Impact on U.S. Users

After testy testimony before Congress several weeks ago, it appears that time may be clicking away for TikTok, the communist Chinese government-tied social media app that is all the rage with our nation’s youth. Amid the fanfare of love him or hate him, Elon Musk’s X platform (formerly Twitter), TikTok had faded into the background a bit, but it remains a pernicious and deeply troubling part of the social media universe. 

Just ask President Joe Biden.

In a perplexing if not hypocritical move, basement Biden 2.0 continues to use the app for his reelection campaign, posting nearly 50 TikTok videos after having banned roughly 4 million federal employees from using it, among other data security measures.

But there are still deep concerns about TikTok’s use of data, including data from children, and how the communist Chinese government may or may not have…

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