{"id":1911546,"date":"2023-04-08T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-that-true-washington-post-reporter-questions-tiktoks-link-to-ccp\/"},"modified":"2023-04-08T00:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T04:44:00","slug":"is-that-true-washington-post-reporter-questions-tiktoks-link-to-ccp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-that-true-washington-post-reporter-questions-tiktoks-link-to-ccp\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Is That True?\u2019: Washington Post Reporter Questions TikTok\u2019s Link to CCP\u00a0"},"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\">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%2Fis-that-true-washington-post-reporter-questions-tiktoks-link-to-ccp%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=1911546&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><h2>I actually have no idea where TikTok is based, Taylor Lorenz admits to the customers.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Taylor Lorenz \/ Grabien, a reporter for the Washington Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Washington Post <\/em>technology columnist Taylor Lorenz, the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/washington-post-taylor-lorenz\/\">self-described<\/a> &#8220;most online reporter that you can find&#8221; said Thursday in a discussion hosted by the libertarian magazine <em>Reason<\/em> that she doesn\u2019t know where TikTok is headquartered or that a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member holds an executive position with the tech company\u2019s parent, ByteDance.<\/p>\n<p>She remarked,&#8221; I actually have no idea where TikTok is based. &#8221; Umm. Singapore was where the Director was. Um. He is therefore present, and after that, it is [ sic ] run regionally throughout the world by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The former writer for the <em>New York Times <\/em>also questioned whether it was&#8221; correct&#8221; that a CCP international works in the top placement at ByteDance. &#8221; Is that accurate? Is that accurate? Is that accurate? Lorenz remarked. <a href=\"https:\/\/cybernews.com\/editorial\/tiktok-owner-bytedance-hybrid-chinese-state-entity\/\">Zhang Fuping<\/a>, the editor in chief of ByteDance, is a repository of the Chinese Community Party.<\/p>\n<p>Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of Tik Tok, is based in Singapore and was questioned during a high-profile legislative hearing about which Lorenz wrote. ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is based in Beijing and has a close relationship with the CCP. Lorenz recently traveled to the company&#8217;s headquarters&#8217;s to write about the&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/02\/02\/ticktok-transparency-center-opens\/\">charm offensive<\/a>&#8221; of the business.<\/p>\n<p>The contentious journalist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@taylorlorenz?lang=en\">a TikTok user<\/a> herself, seemed to laugh off worries about the platform&#8217;s potential&#8217;s threats to national security and praised the tech company for its algorithm for giving its users more power. TikTok&#8217;s individual&#8217;s may be a tool for CCP change in the US, according to testimony from FBI Director Chris Wray from last November.<\/p>\n<p>The company launched the Democratic advocacy solid SKDK last month, which has close ties to the Biden White House, and Lorenz&#8217;s remarks&#8217;s come as the company is waging its own massive public relations campaign. They also show how some of the nation&#8221; top journalists are sympathetic to TikTok&#8217;apprehension.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz, who was present at a 16-year-old TikTok celebrity birthday&#8217;s occasion, declined to comment when contacted.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz claimed she was&#8221; dying&#8221; at the alleged ignorance of the lawmakers who grilled Chew during the <em>Reason <\/em>discussion. Additionally, she wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/03\/28\/tiktok-challenges-congress-misinformation\/\">fact-check<\/a> late last month criticizing Republican legislators who took part in the reading. She demanded an explanation for allegedly misleading claims the politicians rarely made in emails to their assistants that were obtained by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Cathy McMorris-Rodgers ( R., Wash. ) claimed that TikTok users cannot post unfavorable content about China in an <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-06-at-8.00.26-PM.png\">email<\/a> to Lorenz asking for comment. According to a review of her inquiries, McMorris Rodgers questioned Chew about TikTok&#8217;s history&#8217;s of censoring Tiananmen Square-related articles. And TikTok undoubtedly had: According to leaked documents outlining the project&#8217;s moderation&#8217;s policies, a 2019 <em>Guardian<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/sep\/25\/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing\">report<\/a> stated that the company &#8216; content moderators should&#8221; judge movies that mention Tiananmen Square, Chinese democracy, or the banned religious team Falun Gong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also asserted that Rep. Bob Latta( D., Va.) had misrepresented TikTok as the source of the&#8221; blackout challenge ,&#8221; in which kids are urged to hold their breath until they pass out. Instead of doing so, the lawmaker questioned Chew about TikTok&#8217;s lack&#8217;s of action to temper such challenges. Latta discussed the death of a 10-year-old girl who passed away in Pennsylvania after attempting the shutdown difficulty that she saw trending on TikTok. Two families <a href=\"https:\/\/socialmediavictims.org\/press-releases\/lawsuits-filed-against-tiktok-for-two-childrens-deaths-from-blackout-challenge\/\">sued TikTok last summer<\/a> after their children died of self-sufficiency, and the girl&#8217;s parents&#8217;s hold them responsible for the death of their daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz pursued Rep. using a comparable strategy. Buddy Carter for making the connection between TikTok and the&#8221; weary soup&#8221; style, in which customers cook meats in NyQuil cough sugar. In her piece, she writes that sleepy chicken was&#8221; never&#8221; a TikTok trend and told Carter that his questions were&#8221; false.&#8221; Don&#8217;t tell her company, which in October 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/10\/04\/fda-nyquil-chicken-challenge-alert\/\">published a piece<\/a> describing the drowsy bird as&#8221; a TikTok contest in which people boil an entire poultry in over-the-counter cough and cold medicine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz stated during the discussion on Thursday that she doesn&#8217;t think the government is responsible for policing false information and propaganda on the internet. When people say,&#8221; I want some sort of censorship because I talk about misinformation ,&#8221; it always seems bizarre to me. I&#8217;ve never&#8217;ve once said that the government should be deciding what constitutes false information or censoring content on social media, she continued.<\/p>\n<p>How the Biden administration let right-wing attacks jump its propaganda efforts is the title of a lengthy investigation by Lorenz into the decision to dissolve its Disinformation Governance Board. Nina Jankowicz, the head of the disbanded board, claimed that she had been the target of coordinated on disorders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Lorenz tells audience, &#8216;I actually don\u2019t know where TikTok is based&#8217; Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz \/ Grabien Washington Post technology columnist Taylor Lorenz, the self-described &#8220;most online reporter that you can find&#8221; said Thursday in a discussion hosted by the libertarian magazine Reason that she doesn\u2019t know where TikTok is headquartered or that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":1911547,"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":[544],"tags":[7126,7322,15259,4899,4245,5046,11409,5956,4086],"class_list":["post-1911546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-ccp","tag-is","tag-link","tag-post","tag-questions","tag-reporter","tag-tiktoks","tag-true","tag-washington"],"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\/1911546","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1911547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}