>1) TikTok is indirectly owned and therefore controlled by Chinese Communist party. Patently false. It's owned by a few Chinese nationals and a few foreign nat

>1) TikTok is indirectly owned and therefore controlled by Chinese Communist party. Patently false. It's owned by a few Chinese nationals and a few foreign nationals, in roughly a 50-50 ratio. >2) Given the footprint and influence that TikTok has in the US, the platform has the ability to editorially control what people see and therefore influence perceptions of things such as elections and other hot button issues. Like CNN, Fox News, NYT, WaPo, BBC, Al Jazeera, Russia Today, South China Morning Post? >3) The widespread installation of an app indirectly controlled by the CCP creates fundamental risk. Eg a number of popular TikTok influencers were actually members of the armed forces who were recording videos in their residences on military properties. Gps and potentially camera access provides information such as troop movements and troop readiness to a potential adversary. At a wider scale, there are similar risks with mass location information of members of the public. That's an OPSEC discipline issue. Active duty personnel shouldn't be posting videos of themselves on any social media app. >The reality is that US companies are not leaned on by the US government for this kind of information about foreign users. Snowden, Assange, the NSA, Five Eyes and various other very real things would like to have a word with you.