{"id":2200898,"date":"2024-03-17T21:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T01:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-gallagher-on-tiktok-lobbying-push-should-be-illegal-for-former-u-s-officials-to-lobby-on-behalf-of-foreign-adversaries\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T21:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T01:29:14","slug":"mike-gallagher-on-tiktok-lobbying-push-should-be-illegal-for-former-u-s-officials-to-lobby-on-behalf-of-foreign-adversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-gallagher-on-tiktok-lobbying-push-should-be-illegal-for-former-u-s-officials-to-lobby-on-behalf-of-foreign-adversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Gallagher Criticizes TikTok Lobbying: Calls for Ban on Ex-U.S. Officials Lobbying for &#8216;Foreign Adversaries"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fmike-gallagher-on-tiktok-lobbying-push-should-be-illegal-for-former-u-s-officials-to-lobby-on-behalf-of-foreign-adversaries%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=2200898&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--><h2>Rep. Gallagher Denounces Ex-Officials Lobbying for TikTok&#8217;s Parent \u2064Company<\/h2>\n<p>In a compelling weekend interview, <strong>Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI)<\/strong> voiced his concerns over the \u200binvolvement of former U.S. \u200dofficials with ByteDance, \u2062the corporate parent of the popular social \u200dmedia platform TikTok, which falls under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<h3>Exposing\u200c TikTok&#8217;s Lobbying \u200bEfforts<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking on CBS\u2063 News&#8217; <em>&#8220;Face The Nation&#8221;<\/em>, Gallagher unfolded the \u2063extensive lobbying\u200b efforts by ByteDance \u200bto\u2062 derail U.S. legislative moves\u200d that could compel the company to divest TikTok.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There is an \u2064unprecedented \u2064lobbying campaign,\u2062 they\u2019re really \u2062weaponizing the swamp against legislative \u2063action,&#8221; Gallagher expressed with discernible frustration. &#8220;Over half a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/12th-house-speaker-vote-underway\/\" title=\"12th House Speaker Vote Underway\">million dollars spent<\/a> last quarter alone on seven different lobbying firms. It\u2019s disgusting. Former members of Congress\u200b lobbying on behalf of TikTok. By the way, that should be illegal. Members of Congress should not be allowed to \u2063lobby in general, let alone on behalf of foreign adversaries. Side note.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>The Battle Over TikTok&#8217;s Influence<\/h3>\n<p>Amidst\u200b the escalating debate, \u200bGallagher emphasized the potential benefits to the user experience if TikTok \u200bwere to change hands. He suggested that the\u200c platform&#8217;s contentious\u2064 algorithm, notorious for shaping user perceptions and content curation, would \u2063likely be discarded by any new ownership, \u200cpotentially making TikTok even more\u200c valuable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The opaque algorithm influencing what information\u2062 you see, that\u200d would go away. So, I \u200dimagine it would actually increase\u2062 in \u200cvalue,&#8221; Gallagher proposed optimistically.<\/li>\n<li>He warned about the impending danger \u2062as elections approach, &#8220;The closer we get to an election, the risk just gets greater \u200band greater.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gallagher pinpointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-got-it-newsmax-reporter-emerald-robinson-national-security-source-confirms-a-piece-of-hardware-has-been-secured-in-germany\/\" title=\"We Got It! - Newsmax Reporter Emerald Robinson: National Security Source Confirms \"A Piece of Hardware Has Been Secured\" in Germany\">national security<\/a> concerns<\/strong>, \u200breferencing an unclassified \u200dDNI report and intelligence community \u2063officials&#8217;\u2062 testimonies, labeling TikTok&#8217;s current ownership as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sleepy-joe-bidens-gang-who-stole-election-postpones-inauguration-rehearsal-claiming-security-threats-obama-advisor-lisa-monaco-to-take-over\/\" title=\"Sleepy Joe Biden\u2019s Gang Postpones Inauguration Rehearsal Claiming Security Threats \u2013 Obama Advisor Lisa Monaco to Take Over\">security threat<\/a>. He \u200creaffirmed the urgency of separating TikTok from ByteDance and the CCP to safeguard U.S. interests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/director-of-national-intelligence-includes-chinas-tiktok-among-its-top-threats-to-national-security\">Director Of National Intelligence Includes China\u2019s TikTok Among Its Top Threats To National Security<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mike Gallagher slammed ex-U.S. officials for lobbying for ByteDance, owner of TikTok, on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation,&#8221; deeming it a CCP-controlled threat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2200899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1234979815-e1634579585879.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1234979815-e1634579585879.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200898","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}