{"id":1874174,"date":"2023-03-10T15:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T20:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/intelligence-chiefs-unite-in-warning-about-threat-posed-by-china-owned-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T20:14:18","slug":"intelligence-chiefs-unite-in-warning-about-threat-posed-by-china-owned-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/intelligence-chiefs-unite-in-warning-about-threat-posed-by-china-owned-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence chiefs unite in warning about threat posed by China-owned TikTok"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fintelligence-chiefs-unite-in-warning-about-threat-posed-by-china-owned-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=1874174&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 class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body RichTextBody\">\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">T<\/span>The heads of the U.S.&#8217;s top intelligence agencies met this week to warn about the danger to national security.  <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\">China-owned<\/a>   <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tiktok\">TikTok,<\/a> This is a reference to the influence of the Chinese government on the app&#8217;s algorithm, access to data, and software. <\/p>\n<p>The warnings came during  <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/spy-chief-warns-dragonbear-alliance-continuing-deepen-every-sector\">back-to-back<\/a> Senate and House Intelligence Committee  <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/spy-chief-commits-sharing-energy-department-wuhan-lab-leak-congress\">Audiences<\/a> This week,  <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\">FBI Director<\/a>   <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/christopher-wray\">Christopher Wray<\/a> They were the first to warn of the dangers.  <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/tiktok-lobbyists-gop-and-democrat-senators-congressmen-staffers\">&#8220;national security concerns&#8221; Pose<\/a> TikTok with the heads of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency agreeing with him. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-center>\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78207158\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"> <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Chinese President Xi Jinping issues rare rebuke of US for 'suppression against us'\"><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued a rare public rebuke of the United States for embarking on a crusade to thwart China's rise. Although he has taken veiled digs at the U.S. in the past, Xi has generally refrained from calling out the U.S. by name, but as tensions with Washington, D.C., escalate, he opted to ratchet up his rhetoric as the National People's Congress gathered, according to state media.\"><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M33S\"><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-07 16:38:26\"><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/localimages\/1256962_th_1678207144.jpg\"><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/sd\/1256962.mp4\"><\/div>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _bp=_bp||[]; _bp.push({ \"div\": \"Brid_78207158\", \"obj\": {\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"16\",\"height\":\"9\",\"video\":\"1256962\"} }); <\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/courage-strength-optimism\/spy-community-warns-of-chinese-willingness-to-meddle-in-us-elections\">SPY COMMUNITY WARNS CHINA&#8217;S WILLINGNESS IN U.S. TO MEDDLE ELECTIONS<\/a> <\/b> <\/p>\n<p>TikTok&#8217;s owner is ByteDance. A Beijing-based company, ByteDance has <u> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/tiktok-spent-more-than-1-million-summer-2022\">Links to the Chinese government<\/a> <\/u> Shou Zi Chew was simultaneously the CFO at ByteDance from November 2021 to April 2021. In April 2021, he became CEO of TikTok. <u> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/tiktok-picks-ceo-linked-blacklisted-chinese-companies-deemed-national-security-threats-us\">Increasing the influence of the Chinese parent company<\/a> <\/u> The app. <\/p>\n<p>Wray negotiated with Senator Marco Rubio, R-FL on Wednesday  <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/event\/?526327\/intelligence-directors-testify-global-threats\">When asked<\/a> If the Chinese Communist Party could access millions of users&#8217; data through ByteDance control, then China could possibly control millions of devices. China could also use TikTok for narratives that attempt to divide Americans and push anti-Taiwan sentiment. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think 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 that something that&#8217;s very sacred in our country, the difference between the private sector and the public sector \u2014 that&#8217;s a line that is nonexistent in the way the CCP operates,&#8221; Wray testified. <\/p>\n<p>While TikTok, ByteDance, and TikTok claim they have never and will not give TikTok user information to the Chinese government repeatedly, national security specialists have raised concerns over China&#8217;s 2017 National Intelligence Law which requires all Chinese businesses to help Chinese intelligence agencies when asked. <\/p>\n<p>Rubio claimed Wednesday that &#8220;TikTok is not a good thing for America,&#8221; All intelligence chiefs agreed. According to the Florida Republican, TikTok was a terrorist program. &#8220;is probably one of the most valuable surveillance tools on the planet&#8221; It was noted &#8220;we&#8217;ve invited them in and protected them by our laws.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The senator  <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2023\/2\/momentum-grows-to-ban-chinese-owned-tiktok-as-rubio-and-king-reintroduce-bipartisan-bill\">reintroduced<\/a> February legislation that would prohibit &#8220;all transactions from any social media company in or under the influence of&#8221; TikTok would not be allowed in China, Russia, or other countries that are hostile to it. <\/p>\n<p>Wray  <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/event\/?526442\/intelligence-directors-testify-global-threats\">It should be emphasized<\/a> This Thursday &#8220;it&#8217;s the ownership of the CCP that fundamentally cuts across all those concerns&#8221; Referring to TikTok (when pressed by Rep. Mike Gallagher, (R-WI), the FBI director said that China could manipulate this algorithm in order to conduct influence operations and access the data for espionage. He also claimed that the software could be used to control millions of phones. <\/p>\n<p>DNI Avril Haines testified <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/courage-strength-optimism\/intel-chiefs-unite-warning-threat-posed-china-owned-tiktok\">In warning of the danger posed by TikTok, China&#8217;s state-owned intelligence agency, intelligence chiefs come together<\/a>&#8221;<\/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>TThe heads of the U.S.&#8217;s top intelligence agencies met this week to warn about the danger to national security. China-owned TikTok, This is a reference to the influence of the Chinese government on the app&#8217;s algorithm, access to data, and software. The warnings came during back-to-back Senate and House Intelligence Committee Audiences This week, FBI &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896930,"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":[538],"tags":[5991,16700,4786,6466,4104,6248,5132,7267],"class_list":["post-1874174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-chiefs","tag-china-owned","tag-intelligence","tag-posed","tag-threat","tag-tiktok","tag-unite","tag-warning"],"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\/1874174","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=1874174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}