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Washington wants TikTok. It’s not about China
What started as a bipartisan move to check Chinese influence has ended in a deeper crisis for US democracy.
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TikTok has 1.12 billion monthly active users worldwide and 170 million in the US.
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Cory Alpert
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In 2024, the US Congress passed a Bill demanding that TikTok be sold to an American owner
The most common refrain was that TikTok was a national security risk – that its algorithm was so powerful that it was having undue influence on the American population, and at the behest of the Chinese government.
