{"id":2003814,"date":"2023-08-17T14:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T18:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-half-of-americans-want-tiktok-banned-poll-shows\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T14:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T18:46:44","slug":"nearly-half-of-americans-want-tiktok-banned-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-half-of-americans-want-tiktok-banned-poll-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Almost 50% of Americans Support TikTok Ban"},"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%2Fnearly-half-of-americans-want-tiktok-banned-poll-shows%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=2003814&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>\n<h2>Half of\u2064 American Adults Support \u200da Ban on TikTok, Survey Shows<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Close \u2063to half\u200c of American adults support a ban on the \u200dChinese-owned social media app\u2064 TikTok, according to a\u200d new Reuters\/Ipsos survey \u2064that also asked questions about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackburn-introduces-amendments-to-counter-china-and-iran\/\" title=\"Blackburn Introduces Amendments to Counter China and Iran\">national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-deletes-president-trumps-tweets-threatens-permanent-suspension\/\" title=\"Twitter deletes President Trump\u2019s tweets, threatens permanent suspension\">security concerns<\/a><\/a> and\u200c China.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>TikTok, owned by Chinese tech giant\u200d ByteDance and used by tens \u200cof millions of \u2064Americans, has faced calls \u2064from U.S. lawmakers for a nationwide ban over concerns\u2064 about possible Chinese government influence.<\/p>\n<p>Some 47 percent \u2064of respondents to the two-day \u200cpoll, which concluded on Tuesday, said they\u2064 at least somewhat\u2063 supported &#8220;banning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-tech-to-ban-parler-over-lack-of-content-moderation\/\" title=\"Big tech to ban Parler over lack of content moderation\">social media application<\/a>, TikTok, from use in the United States,&#8221; while 36 percent opposed a \u200bban and 17 percent said they didn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-eight percent of Republicans favored a \u200cban, compared\u2063 to 47 percent of Democrats, the\u200d poll showed.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063news comes as New\u2064 York City on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/16\/technology\/tiktok-ban-new-york-city.html\">banned<\/a> \u2062 TikTok from government\u2064 devices over security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-want-tougher-china-policies-poll-shows\/\" title=\"Poll shows Americans desire stronger policies towards China.\">revealed deep worries<\/a> among Americans about China&#8217;s global influence at \u200ba time when U.S.-China relations have fallen to their lowest point in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The online Reuters\/Ipsos poll \u2063was conducted nationwide,\u2062 collecting responses \u200dfrom 1,005 adults, including 443 Democrats and 346 Republicans. It\u2062 had a credibility interval, a measure of\u2064 precision,\u200b of about 4 percentage points in either direction.<\/p>\n<h3>FBI Director Raises Concerns about TikTok<\/h3>\n<p>FBI \u200bdirector Christopher Wray said\u200b in March that China&#8217;s government could\u2063 use TikTok to\u2063 control\u200d software on millions \u2062of \u2064devices and drive narratives to divide Americans,\u200d adding that the app \u2062&#8221;screams&#8221; of\u200d national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Other top U.S. intelligence officials, including CIA \u200ddirector William \u2062Burns, also have said TikTok poses a threat.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok \u2064said in a \u200dstatement that more than 150 million \u200cAmericans, \u2062including 5 \u2064million U.S.\u2063 businesses, actively use TikTok to earn a living, engage in the classroom, and find community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve \u2064taken \u2063unprecedented\u2062 actions \u200bto \u2063safeguard protected U.S. user data, and we will continue working to build\u2063 a safe, \u200csecure,\u2062 and inclusive platform to ensure the positive \u200dexperience \u200cof our users in every corner of the country,&#8221; a TikTok\u2063 spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to give the\u2062 Biden \u200badministration \u2064new powers \u2064to\u200d ban TikTok have stalled \u200din Congress. Last month U.S. lawmakers said they were\u2062 considering changes to address concerns about\u2063 the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Still, \u200cthe \u2064issue could become a focus for Republicans in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign, with some candidates backing a TikTok ban.<\/p>\n<p>Former \u2063president Donald Trump in 2020 sought to bar new downloads of TikTok but \u200ba series \u200cof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-half-of-americans-want-tiktok-banned-poll-shows\/\" title=\"Poll: Almost 50% of Americans Support TikTok Ban\">court\u200d decisions blocked<\/a> \u2063the ban from taking effect.<\/p>\n<p>Florida governor and presidential candidate\u2063 Ron \u200dDeSantis \u200chas said he favors some form of national \u2062ban on the app.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Michael Martina, David Shephardson and Jason Lange; Editing by \u2064Don Durfee, Sharon Singleton and David Gregorio)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Reuters\/Ipsos survey reveals that nearly 50% of American adults back a ban on TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media app. The survey also addressed concerns about national security and China. TikTok, owned by ByteDance, a Chinese tech giant, has been under scrutiny by U.S. lawmakers who advocate for a nationwide ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2003815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-2003814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/2003814","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}