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What difference does that make?
From the governments point of view it makes a big difference to national security.
Tiktok never played a key role in a successful foreign plot to illegally influence the outcome of an American presidential election. Facebook did in 2016.
Is that a defense of TickTok?
I don't disagree about Facebook, but that doesn't mean TickTok isn't a national security threat.
I'm not sure what your trying to argue against here.
I'm saying that Tiktok is not a national security threat and the only reason that congress is pretending so is because they don't like or understand the people using it and because it's a non-donating threat to some of their biggest sources of legal bribes.
I don't use Tiktok myself and I'm in no way a fan of their awful algorithm, but that doesn't give politicians license to just make shit up while blatantly ignoring the REAL threats because they are paid to.
That would be a very reasonable assumption. Accept that ByteDance does in fact donate and lobby quite a lot. It just isn't working very well for them.
I'd argue that a foreign power using a local platform for propaganda, is one kind of threat. And a foreign power owning and controlling the platform itself, can be a more subtle and probably more potent threat. They don't have to create the content like Russia did. They only have to tweak the algorithm a little, so as to surface content they want slightly more often. That would be much harder to prove.