TikTok

Ahead of Thursday’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing featuring TikTok CEO Shou Chew, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC had their flagship morning news shows spouting off tales of possible despair and financial ruin from TikTok influencers the Chinese-owned social media app paid to fly to Washington to appear as props.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is currently attempting to defend his company at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing. But is there anything he can say to assuage Americans’ national security concerns about TikTok?

Some leftist politicians have ignored the dangers of anti-free speech TikTok and its communist Chinese government-backed parent company, ByteDance, over national security and consumer data. Wonder why that is? Leftist politicians, groups and PACs cashed in thousands of dollars in political donations from TikTok’s employees.

The leftist Big Tech giants that waged a political vendetta against Parler when each banned the app from their platforms are now silent on whether or not the communist Chinese government-tied TikTok app should be banned.

Eight Big Tech companies and one tech industry group all went radio silent when MRC Free Speech America asked whether communist Chinese government-tied TikTok should be banned in the U.S.

ByteDance, TikTok’s communist Chinese government-tied parent company, used web-tracking pixels to surveil over 3,500 companies, including government agencies, a scathing report found.

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, finds itself in more turmoil as a new Mar. 16 report suggests that the FBI and Justice Department are investigating the communist Chinese government-tied company’s efforts to spy on U.S.-based journalists.

On Thursday night, Politico’s Daniel Lippman reported that the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok “hired top Biden-connected consulting firm SKDK” founded by current White House senior adviser Anita Dunn within “the last few months” to likely help it escape scrutiny and a possible ban from the federal government amid legitimate concerns its stored data can be used by the…

A whistleblower has confirmed that the communist Chinese government-tied TikTok does not protect user data as much as it claims to.

Commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr told MRC Free Speech America in an exclusive interview that “the tide is moving out on TikTok whether it’s in Europe or the U.S. and there’s really no amount of prevaricating and gaslighting that they can do at this point I think to avert that.”

A new proposed bill in the Senate would make it easier for the president to ban the pro-censorship, Chinese Communist government-tied app TikTok.

A Republican bill joining President Joe Biden’s efforts to ban TikTok advanced in a committee vote this week, and one House Democrat, in particular, doesn’t appear happy about it.

The White House has effectively banned TikTok from all federal devices and given agencies 30 days to ditch the app.

Though he had been back for a few weeks since the February 1 birth of his daughter with wife and Fox Business correspondent Hillary Vaughn, Wednesday marked Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy’s first White House briefing since January 27. Not surprisingly, he was still prepared as he grilled the ever-inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on whether President Biden is “afraid of…