Top Democrat and Republican senators warned over the weekend that TikTok, the social media app allegedly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, is “the most powerful propaganda tool” that officials have ever seen.
The remarks from Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) and Ranking Member Marco Rubio (R-FL) on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” come as the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill this week that would force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to divest its ownership in the company or it will be banned in the U.S.
Warner slammed President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign for joining TikTok, saying it sent “a pretty darn mixed message.”
Warner warned that TikTok poses a threat to the U.S. by collecting Americans’ data and manipulating what they see to turn them against each other.
“If you don’t think the…
