China could use TikTok as a powerful propaganda tool if ByteDance, its China-based parent company, retains ownership, according to national security analysts and China experts. The authoritarian regime could suppress or promote content to benefit the Chinese Communist Party, the experts said. Data collected through the app could be used to create propaganda, they went on to say. TikTok has denied that it's beholden to China, and Microsoft is in talks to purchase the app. TikTok could become a powerful propaganda tool capable of shifting American public opinion if it remains in the hands of its Chinese parent company, national security analysts and China experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The authoritarian regime could use data collected through TikTok to produce more targeted, and consequently, effective propaganda, the experts, who favored banning the app, said. The app could also be used to influence U.S. politics, spy on the nation, or suppress or promote content to benefit the Chinese Communist Party. "You could influence political behavior or engage in information environment-shaping, or propaganda. All these things can be done, and have been done," Stephen Yates, CEO of the public policy consultancy firm DC International Advisory, said of a foreign country's… Read full this story
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