{"id":1564727,"date":"2022-07-21T12:49:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564727"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:49:56","slug":"poll-even-zoomers-want-tiktok-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-even-zoomers-want-tiktok-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Even Zoomers Want TikTok Banned"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fpoll-even-zoomers-want-tiktok-banned%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=1564727&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>Following a report that TikTok employees have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/emilybakerwhite\/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accessing<\/a> their user data, most Americans, including a majority of young people, want TikTok to be banned, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/COSA-TikTok-Full-Report-0712.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a national poll<\/a>\u00a0found.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 60 percent of U.S. users\u2014and 51 percent of the company&#8217;s core demographic of 18 to 24 year olds\u2014want TikTok removed from app stores. Young adults <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1299771\/tiktok-global-user-age-distribution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comprise<\/a> the largest age group on TikTok\u201442 percent as of April. Americans of all ages supported the removal at a slightly higher rate. Only 28 percent oppose the removal, and 21 percent are unsure. Just a plurality of Democrats support banning the app.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure as president, Donald Trump attempted to ban TikTok, citing national security concerns. President Joe Biden abandoned these efforts after taking office. Recent reports have raised <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/27\/voicemail-shows-joe-biden-knew-of-hunters-china-dealings-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concerns<\/a> about the Biden family\u2019s business ties to China. A voicemail surfaced in June of the president discussing his son Hunter Biden&#8217;s relationship with a criminal dubbed the &#8220;spy chief of China,&#8221; the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10938637\/Voicemail-Joe-Biden-Hunter-proves-president-DID-speak-Chinese-business-dealings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/02\/08\/tiktok-shares-your-data-more-than-any-oth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shares<\/a> sensitive user data more than any other social media app and is not transparent about who can access the data. The Beijing-based company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/tiktok-data-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tracks<\/a> information that users copy to their clipboards, stores the metadata of media you create, and monitors your location. Audio recently leaked confirming that employees of ByteDance, TikTok\u2019s parent company, have been accessing user data.<\/p>\n<p>The Trafalgar Group, which conducted the poll, was one of the 10 most <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-death-of-polling-is-greatly-exaggerated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accurate<\/a> pollsters during the 2020 election, according to <em>FiveThirtyEight<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a report that TikTok employees have been accessing their user data, most Americans, including a majority of young people, want TikTok to be banned, a national poll\u00a0found. 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