COMMENTARY_ Mideast war shines a spotlight on TikTok’s dangers

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Mideast war shines a spotlight on TikTok’s dangers

App should be deleted on U.S. smartphones

TikTok’s dangers illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times more >

COMMENTARY


By Daniel N. Hoffman - - Thursday, November 30, 2023

OPINION:

Over the past few weeks, the social media site TikTok has spread a plethora of disinformation and propaganda, including misleading posts about the war between Israel and Hamas and the offensive viral video about Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America.”

Cyberspace can be a force multiplier for freedom of speech and commerce. But it turns out that the internet and social media also provide an unregulated playing field vulnerable to exploitation by our adversaries, such as Russia, Iran and North Korea, to cyberthieves and terrorists.

In the case of TikTok, it is China that has us in its crosshairs.

That’s because the Chinese tech giant ByteDance owns TikTok, which has more than 1 billion users worldwide, including roughly 100 million in the U.S. A recent Pew Research Center study found that over 30% of adults between the ages of 18 and 29 rely on TikTok for their news.

TikTok hosts user-submitted videos, which might appear to have been created by a U.S. citizen or some other seemingly benign “influencer,” but might just as well be a Chinese intelligence officer seeking to twist our political discourse with propaganda in advance of the 2024 presidential election.

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READ MORE: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/30/mideast-war-shines-spotlight-on-tiktoks-dangers/

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