You won't believe what TikTok is now compared to for disastrous impact

(Photo by Aaron Weiss on Unsplash)
(Photo by Aaron Weiss on Unsplash)

It’s like fentanyl, only for the mind, not body.

It’s the Chinese-owned, social-media company TikTok and that conclusion comes from Peter Schweizer, president of the Governmental Accountability Institute, in a column at the Gatestone Institute, where he is a distinguished senior fellow.

“TikTok is a mobile app for sharing short videos, owned by a Chinese company called ByteDance. After five short years on the market, it has more than one billion users worldwide. The app has lived under deep suspicion for much of that time, as American cyber-security and counter-intelligence experts have warned about its enormous reach and direct connections to the Chinese Communist Party,” he explained.

The Trump White House tried to ban it, and was joined by senators as “diverse” as Chuck Schumer of New York and Josh Hawley of Arkansas.

But, he said, nothing came of that.

Under Joe Biden, such concerns were dropped and the only issue now is its work with the government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which reportedly would try to require the company to store its data in the U.S.

But the company continues to refuse to confirm whether the data it collects is given to the Chinese Communist Party, and reports have confirmed that 300 workers at ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, worked previously for Chinese state media, or still do.

Its chief has emphasized “the need for the company to follow the guidance of the Communist Party.”

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., also have suggested a ban, over the app’s “ability to harvest personal information including names, browsing and search history, plus device information and GPS tracking information.”

WND is now on Trump’s Truth Social! Follow us @WNDNews

Schweizer explained that TikTok becomes addictive.

“Its famous ‘For You’ video playlists are driven by powerful algorithms that are tuned constantly to feed you more of these 10-15 second video clips that you like and keep you glued to your screen. This is damaging to young brains, training them to demand fresh stimulation every 15 seconds, which discourages their ability to mentally focus, stay engaged on a single task, and pause for reflection. TikTok deliberately and effectively carpet-bombs their developing minds with the digital equivalent of another Chinese-made import: Fentanyl.”

He pointed out that Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., recently agreed, with, “This is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago.”

Security analysts call the software a “very sophisticated surveillance tool.”

Schweizer said tech specialists worry over the threats to national security, and its role in information warfare threats.

“Beyond the security risks that have led government agencies and even some government contractors to ban the app from employees’ work phones, TikTok also censors information sensitive to the Chinese Communist regime. It does this routinely in China, as we would expect, but also outside of China at the government’s behest. Further, they note that the app circulated false information about the COVID-19 virus during the pandemic and believe China could potentially do so again as part of broader propaganda efforts to influence public discourse within the U.S.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: Leftwing billionaire George Soros bankrolls everything evil – most recently the 75 pro-criminal “Soros district attorneys” who have transformed America’s most dynamic cities into degraded, crime-infested hellscapes of skyrocketing violent crime. Soros also funds drug legalization, euthanasia, open borders, globalism, Black Lives Matter, “defunding the police,” devaluing America’s currency and destroying her sovereignty. But why?

Whistleblower magazine reveals and explores the stunning truth: Soros, an atheist, literally says he’s “some kind of god,” obsessed with re-creating the world in his image. Here are a few actual quotes from Soros: “If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood…” “It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” “You know, in my personal capacity I’m not actually a selfless philanthropic person. I’ve very much self-centered.” “I am kind of a nut who wants to have an impact.” “Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad. … I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it.”

Except he hasn’t “escaped it.” Not only is Soros totally mad, but he’s imposing his insanity on America. See Soros and the leftwing world he has created and funded as never before in “THE BILLIONAIRE WHO THINKS HE’S ‘GOD’: Why George Soros is obsessed with destroying America.”

For 25 years, WND has boldly brought you the news that really matters. If you appreciate our Christian journalists and their uniquely truthful reporting and analysis, please help us by becoming a WND Insider!

Content created by the WND News Center is available for re-publication without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].

SUPPORT TRUTHFUL JOURNALISM. MAKE A DONATION TO THE NONPROFIT WND NEWS CENTER. THANK YOU!

This article was originally published by the WND News Center.

Related Posts