America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
RED CHINA OPERATING IN RED JOE BIDEN'S AMERICA - Congressman Describes TikTok As 'Digital Fentanyl'; 'Ban It'
Election Interference: TikTok Accounts Operated by Chinese Communist Party Push Divisive Videos About U.S. Politicians
The propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party is operating accounts on China-owned TikTok that have millions of followers and push divisive videos about U.S. politicians.
The TikTok accounts are being run by MediaLinks TV, a registered foreign agent of the primary Chinese Communist Party television news outlet, China Central Television, according to a report by Forbes.
Shouzi Chew, chief executive officer of TikTok Inc. Photographer: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg
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Many of the videos on the China-owned app attacked specific U.S. politicians ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The largest of these propaganda accounts are @Pandaorama, @The…Optimist, and @NewsTokss.
Before the U.S. midterm elections, @NewsTokss reportedly attacked Republican candidates and favored Democrat candidates.
One video being pushed by the Chinese government featured a caption that read “Cruz, Abbott Don’t Care About Us,” and another video displayed the caption “Rubio Has Done Absolutely Nothing.”
There was no disclosure on the videos indicating to viewers that the accounts were being run by a foreign government.
This revelation is just the latest example of China, a hostile foreign country, meddling in U.S. elections through its TikTok app, which is Chinese surveillance and psyops thinly veiled as a social media platform.
As Breitbart News previously reported, TikTok was one of the big factors for why Democrats had such a strong performance in the 2022 midterm elections.
“The group of Americans that controlled the election outcome are the group of Americans that China controls through TikTok,” Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams noted. “Allowing TikTok, a Chinese company — to be the primary channel for the most important group of voters in the United States. Do you see any problem there?”
One exit poll found that a staggering 68 percent of unmarried women favored Democrats in the House midterm elections, a demographic that is extremely powerful on TikTok, as nearly 60 percent of who those use the Chinese app are female.
While Democrat lawmakers and left-wing activists appeared to be up in arms over the notion that Russia could have been using social media to meddle in U.S. elections, TikTok is not being met with the same response.
Instead of making moves to ban the Chinese app, the Justice Department is currently reviewing an agreement that would keep TikTok accessible to U.S. users. TikTok users, however, would still risk having their personal data exposed to hacking and espionage by China, even if the U.S. government were to set up a security agreement designed to prevent the app from being banned, security experts say.
In addition to meddling in U.S. elections, TikTok is a danger to American kids and teens, as well as a national security threat. The China-owned app should be outright banned in the United States.
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), a member of the House intelligence committee, is among the concerned Americans calling for TikTok to be banned in the United States. In fact, he and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have written legislation to do just that.
The social media platform, where short videos are shared, is owned by ByteDance, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Gallagher calls TikTok ""digital fentanyl," and he explained why in an appearance with Fox News's Laura Ingraham Tuesday night:
"Well, it's digital fentanyl in sense that it's highly addictive; it's also, therefore, deadly. For all the reasons you laid out in your monologue, our youth are at risk of increased isolation, suicide, depression, anxiety. Those numbers are through the roof. And finally like fentanyl, the precursors date back to China, right?
"TikTok is owned by ByteDance; ByteDance is effectively controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. That means not only can they track your location, collect your key strokes, but they can also censor your news. Increasingly, people use TikTok as a news source.
"The final thing that's really disgusting here, Laura, is the fact that they're weaponizing the swamp against us. TikTok is hiring an army of former members of Congress, senators, Democrats, Republicans, staffers, spending $7 million, nearly, last year in order to lobby on their behalf, exploiting the loopholes in our lobbying laws, which are very weak right now.
"So this is a danger to our kids, it's a national security threat, and ultimately, we don't want the Chinese Communist Party to control the most powerful media company in America."
Ingraham asked which former members of Congress are lobbying for TikTok:
"I believe (former) Senator Trent Lott is lobbying for them," Gallagher said. "Yeah, there's 31 former staffers from members of Congress and some former members of the House whose names elude me at present."
Ingraham noted that the Biden White House is using TikTok to spread its own propaganda, and she played a video of a young woman touting passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (climate change) bill during an appearance at the White House.
"Congressman," Ingraham told Gallagher, "they're using TikTok influencers at the white house to promote their political message, completely oblivious to all the harms and threats that this app and this social media actually does to our country and our kids."
"This sends precisely the wrong message," Gallagher agreed. You know, when you have high level members of the White House just trying to get clicks on TikTok, it's absolutely the wrong direction we need to be going in...I mean, look what they're (Chinese) doing to their own citizens; imagine what they would do to foreign countries, if given the chance."
Gallagher said China already has found a way to cross the U.S. border without using force -- by flooding the country with deadly fentanyl by way of Mexico.
"I think what they're really trying to do is launch an ideological war designed to turn Americans against Americans, designed to propagate this narrative that American is an evil, racist hellscape. Their so-called wolf-warrior diplomats are all over American social media companies, spreading propaganda attacking the United States."
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