Journalists who spoke to press representatives tiktok told me that the company’s representatives open my emails asking to comment with fear. One of the journalists said that a delegate told them that I always asked them to comment on an internal policy, a leakage document or a new feature they have not yet known. I am currently working on more difficult stories about the platform. (If you have any tips, please Call me For my signal number.)
But these difficult stories will not focus on the company that delivers data to the Chinese authorities, or the security risks associated with its connection to the Chinese state. Because I did not find any evidence of either of them. I want to find this call, because I am like any journalist, I am conceited and I want to be the person who breaks a story like this. For years I have been trying to find any links to the Chinese state. I spoke to dozens of Tiktok employees, in the past and present, in seeking to achieve such a call. But I did not discover that.
I cannot say that the link does not exist. But I can say that I and other talented journalists who were cutting the edifice of Tikhak. We now know that the company has Spy And his son Issues of harassment in the workplace. Tijook resources are constantly leaked. But none of us found a smoking pistol. I do not think that my fellow journalists are less keen to find it from me.
We are in a political strange position. Donald Trump’s legacy lives in the way we have our personal novels, which we strongly believe is a fact or often repeated us. We forget the truth. Among those imagination: Tiktok is a risk installed. Tiktok is a doll for the Chinese state. Tiktok is a Trojan horse, waiting for Chinese President Xi Jinping to be topple to bring down the West.
Trump I launched a series of online ads In 2020, he said, “Tiktok spies you.” It is a feeling repeated by other politicians, including Senator in Missouri Josh Holie, who worries Tijook’s links in China.
Nothing of this is true. At least as much as I can say. However, to hear politicians on both sides of the corridor talk about it, it is a verified fact. And they want to block the application because of it.
These American politicians follow a Chinese approach curiously: they do not diminish and they reviewed them in favor of harmony, instead of allowing the free institution from a company that showed that it is ready to bend back to try to answer fears, and made what appears to be good -intentioned efforts to address issues with their appearance.
We will likely see a lot of heat, not a lot of light, from the Congress session on Thursday. There will be the usual protests from Tiktok as they do not contain Chinese governmental links, and the usual spoils of politicians that Tiktok answers are not good enough. But for the sake 150 million Americans Now using the app, we have to hope that Tiktok answers are sufficient.