Far Left Journalist: Trump Was ‘Right’ About TikTok

Journalist Ezra Klein wrote that the Biden administration should follow the Trump administration’s lead on TikTok.

Klein once forecasted that Hillary Clinton would be winning 42 states in 2016, and expressed his concerns in an article for The Daily Beast New York Times that the Chinese Communist Party could decide to use TikTok to “weaken” America.  

“Imagine a world in which the United States has a contested presidential election, as it did in 2020 (to say nothing of 2000),” he wrote. “If one candidate was friendlier to Chinese interests, might the Chinese Communist Party insist that ByteDance give a nudge to content favoring that candidate? Or if they wanted to weaken America rather than shape the outcome, maybe TikTok begins serving up more and more videos with election conspiracies, sowing chaos at a moment when the country is near fracture.”

Klein referenced China’s ban on Facebook and Twitter in return for apps that “abide” censors of the Chinese Communist Party.

“As China’s authoritarian turn continues, and as relations between our countries worsen, it is not far-fetched to suspect they might do unto us what they have always feared we would do unto them,” he wrote.

He said that Americans need to be more alert about how TikTok might be used.

“TikTok’s billion users don’t think they’re looking at a Chinese government propaganda operation because, for the most part, they’re not,” he said. “They’re watching makeup tutorials and recipes and lip sync videos and funny dances. If deployed, it would be a powerful propaganda tool. We don’t know what the people see because every TikTok stream is unique. It would be trivially easy to use it to shape or distort public opinion, and to do so quietly, perhaps untraceably.”

You can start earlier in the calendar year The Daily Wire reported that TikTok “sends data to more third parties than any of its competitors.”

“In a new study, URL Genius leverages Apple’s new privacy features to track where various applications send user data,” a report from The Daily Wire read. “They determined that TikTok, on average, makes contact with 13 third-party domains — far higher than Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, or Snapchat. Although both YouTube and TikTok use an average of 14 trackers overall, 10 of YouTube’s trackers are first-party contacts — meaning that it primarily deals with user data for its own purposes, such as determining relevant advertisements.”

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