{"id":1522049,"date":"2022-06-18T13:19:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T17:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1522049"},"modified":"2022-06-18T14:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T18:51:40","slug":"elon-musk-takes-major-swipe-at-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-takes-major-swipe-at-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Takes Major Swipe At TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-takes-major-swipe-at-tiktok%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1522049&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0seemingly slammed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tiktok\">TikTok<\/a> late this week, asking if the Chinese-owned social media company was ruining the world.<\/p>\n<p>The remark from Musk comes after he announced back in April his intention to purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0 for $54.20 per share in a deal valued at $44 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs TikTok destroying civilization?\u201d Musk tweeted. \u201cSome people think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Is TikTok destroying civilization? Some people think so.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1537962566638415872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is TikTok destroying civilization? Some people think so.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1537962566638415872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He followed that up saying, \u201cOr perhaps social media in general.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s tweet comes as a new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/buzzfeed\">BuzzFeed News<\/a> late this week alleged that China-based TikTok employees have been accessing sensitive U.S. user data despite the company previously indicating that the information would only be accessed from inside the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The fear that U.S. officials have is that U.S. user data could be accessed by ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, because Chinese companies are subjected to the rule of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/chinese-communist-party\">Chinese Communist Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe risk is that the government could force ByteDance to collect and turn over information as a form of \u2018data espionage,\u2019\u201d the report\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/emilybakerwhite\/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access\">said<\/a>. \u201cThere is, however, another concern: that the soft power of the Chinese government could impact how ByteDance executives direct their American counterparts to adjust the levers of TikTok\u2019s powerful \u2018For You\u2019 algorithm, which recommends videos to its more than 1 billion users. Sen. Ted Cruz, for instance, has called TikTok \u2018a Trojan horse the Chinese Communist Party can use to influence what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One TikTok official reportedly said at an internal company meeting that \u201ceverything is seen in China,\u201d while a top TikTok official said at a separate meeting that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/china\">China<\/a>-based software engineer had \u201caccess to everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BuzzFeed\u2019s report said that the evidence that it reviewed showed that U.S. user data \u201cwas accessed far more frequently and recently than previously reported\u201d and that the evidence \u201csuggest[s] that the company may have misled lawmakers, its users, and the public by downplaying that data stored in the US could still be accessed by employees in China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/enriquedans\/2020\/06\/28\/tiktok-beneath-its-fun-exterior-lies-a-sinisterpurpose\/?sh=676eb2093b79\">piece<\/a> published in Forbes a couple of years ago highlighted numerous problems with the Chinese-owned company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US armed forces have forbidden personnel from using it and describes it as a threat to cybersecurity. Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point has investigated it and concludes it has backdoors and major vulnerabilities, as well as overall security issues. The US government is also investigating it. Meanwhile, Reddit CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman describes it as a \u2018fundamentally parasitic app that is always listening\u2019 and warns against installing what he calls \u2018spyware\u2019. Several child advocacy groups say it poses a clear risk to children. Apple claims it has caught TikTok using clipboard capture mechanisms to spy on millions of users,\u201d Forbes reported.<\/p>\n<p>An op-ed published late last year by Matt Pottinger, who served in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> as the senior Asia adviser in the National Security Council and later as deputy national security adviser, and David Feith, who served as U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, warned of China\u2019s attempts to dominate the global battle for data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough a latticework of recent laws and regulations, [Chinese President Xi Jinping] has been hard at work making the Chinese Communist Party the world\u2019s most powerful data broker,\u201d they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/30\/opinion\/xi-jinping-china-us-data-war.html\">wrote<\/a>, noting that Xi accomplishes this \u201cBy walling Chinese data off from the world, exerting new extraterritorial power over global data flows and putting foreign companies operating in China in a legal bind \u2014 all while absorbing other countries\u2019 data by means licit and illicit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They highlighted a quote from Xi shortly after he became president of the country in 2013 that shows Xi\u2019s desire to win the war for who has the upper hand in data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vast ocean of data, just like oil resources during industrialization, contains immense productive power and opportunities,\u201d Xi said. \u201cWhoever controls big data technologies will control the resources for development and have the upper hand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u00a0seemingly slammed TikTok late this week, asking if the Chinese-owned social media company was ruining the world. The remark from Musk comes after he announced back in April his intention to purchase Twitter\u00a0 for $54.20 per share in a deal valued at $44 billion. \u201cIs TikTok destroying civilization?\u201d Musk tweeted. \u201cSome people think so.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1513837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}