Exactly, Tiktok can algorithmically identify a few 100k persuadable voters in a few battleground states and feed them the political viewpoint they favor. Thus CCP can influence our elections. Its easy do this in stealth and there is no way to prove from outside that it happened!.
We already have laws that restrict majority foreign ownership of traditional media, why cant we extend it to new media?
Would it make any difference if it was a US owner? The real problem here is more basic: 80B americans have 20% of their free time centrally controlled. This a health and social problem, whoever owns the corp.
We already have laws that restrict majority foreign ownership of traditional media, why cant we extend it to new media?