{"id":1803442,"date":"2023-01-12T10:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803442"},"modified":"2023-01-12T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T15:52:28","slug":"biden-white-house-repeatedly-entertained-lobbyists-for-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-white-house-repeatedly-entertained-lobbyists-for-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden White House Repeatedly Entertained Lobbyists for 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\">16<\/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%2Fbiden-white-house-repeatedly-entertained-lobbyists-for-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=1803442&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-->\n<p>New evidence suggests that the Biden administration hosted lobbyists for TikTok, a Communist Chinese Party-tied TikTok, during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_50_ img-fluid blog-img\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id  style=\"display:none\"> The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YRDtKqzV6g\">reported<\/a> Monday that TikTok and ByteDance, the app\u2019s parent company, have made concentrated efforts to influence the Biden administration amid concerns the app <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/gabriela-pariseau\/2022\/10\/20\/even-pro-leftist-org-ceo-warns-us-tiktok-users-are\">shares user information<\/a> Chinese Communist Party. Particularly, the lobbyists \u201cvisited the White House at least eight times between July 2021 and August 2022,\u201d According to White House logs that were reviewed by The <em>Examiner. <\/em>The newspaper stated that logs provide a summary of the information. \u201cwindow into how the Chinese government-linked social media operation has gained influence in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As lawmakers, the report is now available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/07\/us\/tiktok-ban-culture-cec\/index.html\">Continue to discuss legislation<\/a> For the app.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the Heritage Foundation Tech Policy Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/staff\/kara-frederick\">Kara Frederick<\/a> This news is extremely worrying, according to the source. \u201c\u2018These people are doing the dirty work of the Chinese party state,'&#8221; Frederick told the<em> Examiner<\/em>. &#8220;\u2019I don&#8217;t think we should mince words when it comes to that. They know what they&#8217;re doing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gooden.house.gov\/\">Rep. Lance Gooden<\/a> (R-TX), told the <em>Examiner<\/em> National security is at risk because of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I assumed President Biden rescinded Trump\u2019s ban on TikTok because Hunter was getting kickbacks from China, but now we know TikTok\u2019s lobbyists have also had unfettered access to the White House,\u2019&#8221; Gooden said. &#8220;\u2019President Biden must stop cozying up to Chinese companies and start putting our national security and American citizens first.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gooden also called for a national ban on the app: &#8220;\u2019TikTok must be banned nationwide to prevent the theft of American&#8217;s personal data.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have long expressed concerns about TikTok\u2019s ties with communist China.<\/p>\n<p>MRC Free Speech America <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/autumn-johnson\/2022\/07\/03\/tiktok-claims-communist-chinas-company-employees-can\">reported<\/a> ByteDance sold a share to WangTouZhongWen Technology in 2021, a Beijing-based company.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok\u2019s privacy policy allowed it to provide ByteDance with unlimited amounts of user data from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawley.senate.gov\/\">Senator Josh Hawley<\/a> (R-MO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/kayla-sargent\/2021\/04\/15\/tick-tock-hawley-brings-bill-ban-chinese-owned-tiktok\">Led efforts<\/a> Ban the app from official federal devices<\/p>\n<p>Hawley stated that TikTok was at the time \u201ca Trojan horse for the Chinese Communist Party that has no place on government devices\u2014or any American devices, for that matter.\u201d He said: \u201cTikTok has repeatedly proven itself to be a malicious actor[,] but Joe Biden and Big Tech refuse to take the threat of Chinese espionage seriously. It\u2019s time for Congress to act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Conservatives are under attack<\/em><\/strong><em> Get in touch with your representatives to insist that Big Tech be held responsible for mirroring the First Amendment and providing transparency, clarity and accountability \u201chate speech\u201d Conservatives are on equal footing. You can contact us via the CensorTrack Contact Form if you are censored.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New evidence suggests that the Biden administration hosted lobbyists for TikTok, a Communist Chinese Party-tied TikTok, during his tenure. The Washington Examiner reported Monday that TikTok and ByteDance, the app\u2019s parent company, have made concentrated efforts to influence the Biden administration amid concerns the app shares user information Chinese Communist Party. Particularly, the lobbyists \u201cvisited &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1803445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[3620,5458,14562,3653,4527,5189,3819,6248,3765],"class_list":["post-1803442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-biden","tag-bongino","tag-entertained","tag-house","tag-lobbyists","tag-repeatedly","tag-report","tag-tiktok","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803442","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}