https://thenewamerican.com/how-communist-china-uses-tiktok-to-undermine-america/
SINGAPORE — In December 2022, Gordon Chang, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute and author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War, said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is relying on TikTok to incite social chaos in the United States in a bid to weaken America’s system of government.
In replying to comments from Fox News host Jason Chaffetz about China’s assertions that it has legitimate fears that it hopes the U.S. can take seriously, Chang said:
Well, first of all, China doesn’t have legitimate concerns. It’s not a legitimate state. And we should stop treating it as such, because as you say, it is committing genocide, crimes against humanity, it deliberately spread Covid-19 beyond its borders — that 6.7 million people outside of China who have died from a disease that should have never left the central part of that country. You know, we can go on and on. But clearly, China is engaging in a series of acts which are destructive not only toward the United States, but the international community as a whole.
Later in the interview, Chaffetz alluded to a report that ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, spied on various U.S. journalists.
“It is actually more serious that it is using the TikTok algorithm to disseminate Chinese propaganda, glorifying drug use, promoting violence on American streets, and this year, disseminating Russian narratives about the Ukraine war,” he added. “So this really is an attempt to undermine and actually even overthrow the U.S. government. And why do we permit it? I don’t know. India banned TikTok, we should do the same thing.”