TikTok, owned by the Chinese company Bytedance Inc, has been downloaded over 110 million times in the US and its growing popularity creates 'national security risks', the senators wrote. — AFP
The Chinese-owned video application TikTok may be a national security threat to the US and should be investigated, two key senators said in a letter to the acting director of national intelligence.
"TikTok is a potential counterintelligence threat we cannot ignore,” Republican Senator Tom Cotton and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a letter on Oct 24 to Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire.
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