{"id":1872518,"date":"2023-03-09T03:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T08:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-screams-of-national-security-risks-fbi-director\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T08:27:08","slug":"tiktok-screams-of-national-security-risks-fbi-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-screams-of-national-security-risks-fbi-director\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok \u2018Screams\u2019 of National Security Risks: FBI Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Ftiktok-screams-of-national-security-risks-fbi-director%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=1872518&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<div>\n<p>Christopher Wray, FBI Director of FBI, warned Senate Intelligence Committee Members about the dangers on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/sen-josh-hawley-to-introduce-bill-banning-tiktok-from-us_5007231.html\">TikTok<\/a> poses to the United States&#8217; security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a tool that is ultimately within the control of the Chinese government, and it, to me, it screams out with national security concerns,&#8221; Wray informed senators on March 8. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/hearings\/open-hearing-worldwide-threats-3\">hearing<\/a> On &#8220;Worldwide Threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TikTok, a popular social media app that boasts more than 1 billion active users worldwide, is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance\u2014a fact that makes the app all the more dangerous, according to Wray.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), FBI Director, the FBI confirmed that the app had the capability to gather personal information and could be used to control software on electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Wray further confirmed that Wray was able to manipulate American users&#8217; content in order to influence political narratives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example, let&#8217;s say China wants to invade Taiwan,&#8221; Rubio postulated. &#8220;[Could TikTok] make sure that Americans are seeing videos arguing why Taiwan belongs to China, why the U.S. should not intervene?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wray also confirmed that this was the case. &#8220;We&#8217;re not sure that we would see many of the outward signs that it was happening if it was happening. And I think \u2026 the most fundamental piece that cuts across every one of those risks and threats that you mentioned, that I think Americans need to understand, is something that&#8217;s very sacred in our country: the difference between the private sector and the public sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there is no difference between China and China in communism. TikTok might be required to supply personal information of Americans to the Chinese Communist Party on request.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, they can collect our data, manipulate information, poison the minds and feed garbage into the minds of millions of people,&#8221; Rubio summarized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a substantial national security threat for the country of a kind that we didn&#8217;t face in the past,&#8221; The senator continued. &#8220;At the end of the day, it&#8217;s not about, you know, some grown man in the middle of the day putting up videos \u2026 that people that have a job shouldn&#8217;t be putting up. But it&#8217;s also about all of these other things that we&#8217;ve talked about\u2014the data, the ability to manipulate information. I would imagine that it&#8217;s probably one of the most valuable surveillance tools on the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has reached TikTok to get their comments.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> &#8230;..<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> &#8220;Continue reading More from&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/tiktok-screams-of-national-security-risks-fbi-director_5108704.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=conservnewsd\">TikTok \u2018Screams&#8217; of National Security Risks: FBI Director<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Wray, FBI Director of FBI, warned Senate Intelligence Committee Members about the dangers on Wednesday TikTok poses to the United States&#8217; security. &#8220;This is a tool that is ultimately within the control of the Chinese government, and it, to me, it screams out with national security concerns,&#8221; Wray informed senators on March 8. hearing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":1895614,"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":[543],"tags":[18623,6350,5591,4107,7993,3646,6248],"class_list":["post-1872518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-screams","tag-director","tag-fbi","tag-national","tag-risks","tag-security","tag-tiktok"],"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\/1872518","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\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}