FBI Director Chris Wray told the Senate intel committee TikTok can 'drive narratives' and 'divide Americans,' adding the Chinese app 'screams out with national security concerns.'
"If you were to ask Americans, would you like to turn over your data – all your data, control of your device, control of your information – to the CCP, most Americans would say, ‘I'm not down with that,’ as my kids would say," Wray testified. "It's the control of the recommendation algorithm, which allows them to conduct influence operation.
"If you look at the Chinese government's gobbling up of information and data and then the use of AI and other tools, ultimately supercomputing things that to marshal all that data to conduct targeting for espionage, targeting for IP theft, targeting for the all the things that I and others on this panel have been calling out about the Chinese government," Wray added, giving context to the CCP’s reach.
FBI Director Christopher Wray and the leaders of other U.S. intelligence agencies testified on a wide range of issues, including China, COVID-19 origins, and TikTok. "Data is the coin of the realm – who have the best information have the power – and that's what, that's what that enables them to. You just have to look at, where they essentially stole the PII of half the population of the United States, and that's one Chinese government operation."
On the risks to American youth, the senator told Wray, "My kids are about the same age as your kids and what I would say is people ought to find a different platform." "Americans don't need to spend three weeks out of the year on a platform that's run out of Beijing for Beijing's purposes. And we can do a better job than that," Bennet said. "I don't think the American people have had the kind of negotiation you were just talking about.
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