{"id":591972,"date":"2021-07-15T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591972"},"modified":"2021-07-15T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:07:12","slug":"ashton-kutcher-warns-that-china-could-use-tiktok-to-influence-americans-with-anti-u-s-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ashton-kutcher-warns-that-china-could-use-tiktok-to-influence-americans-with-anti-u-s-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashton Kutcher Warns That China Could Use TikTok To Influence Americans With Anti-U.S. Propaganda"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fashton-kutcher-warns-that-china-could-use-tiktok-to-influence-americans-with-anti-u-s-propaganda%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=591972&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-538243044-e1626202550787.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Last week, actor Ashton Kutcher expressed concern that China\u2019s Communist regime could use TikTok to push \u201canti-U.S. propaganda\u201d and influence younger American users of the social media platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf I\u2019m China and I want to create a problem in that area of the world, specifically a naval problem in that area of the world, in the South China Sea, I would probably want to utilize TikTok in order to influence the minds of Americans in an anti-U.S. propaganda, anti-Taiwanese propaganda effort in order to make any kind of war from the United States extraordinarily unpopular,\u201d Kutcher said while speaking on the \u201cAmerican Optimist\u201d YouTube channel run by Joe Lonsdale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy sense as a fervent American is that it\u2019s getting extraordinarily dangerous for not just individuals but for the country at large,\u201d Kutcher added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ashton Kutcher Warns China Could Use TikTok Against the U.S.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gri661zGfEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think we\u2019re about to face a reckoning in that particular domain, and it\u2019s going to probably change what social media looks like in the future,\u201d Kutcher said, on the subject of \u201cmedia manipulation\u201d and \u201cmisinformation campaigns.\u201d \u201cMy sense is that what social media is today is not what social media is going to be in five years. If the trendline continues on the path that it\u2019s on today, my kids will not be on social media. If the trendline pivots as I think it likely will, there\u2019s a change that I will allow them to use it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many were concerned when the Chinese social media platform TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-chinas-tiktok-unable-to-explain-why-they-may-store-your-faceprints-and-voiceprints-and-other-biometric-data\">released their new privacy<\/a> policy in June 2021, informing users that the app may collect new forms of biometric data, such as \u201cfaceprints and voiceprints,\u201d but that the company was reportedly \u201cunable to explain what types of data these terms referred to, or why the app might need to access this information in the first place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA change to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/legal\/privacy-policy?lang=en#privacy-us\"><span>TikTok\u2019s U.S. privacy policy<\/span><\/a><span> on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app \u2018may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information\u2019 from its users\u2019 content,\u201d reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/06\/03\/tiktok-just-gave-itself-permission-to-collect-biometric-data-on-u-s-users-including-faceprints-and-voiceprints\/?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tLw&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANAjB_afsssFR4APN9O4Vawrfs22EWTL2kdWa1YmoVTO_Ksab2ulVKARysujLdD_8L4sk8Svz-ioJT6YywnotB9WEKO6xhBYsM-OQ7hCU_Uv7QXQkzEH85IiUFkdJJH0-01OUwyYMYFoY9bAMRb9VneRf_mOVzKpf1BCLbWq6BUk\"><span>TechCrunch<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cThis includes things like \u2018faceprints and voiceprints,\u2019 the policy explained.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>TechCrunch then explained that after being reached for comment on the forms of data that may be collected, \u201cTikTok could not confirm what product developments necessitated the addition of biometric data to its list of disclosures about the information it automatically collects from users but said it would ask for consent in the case such data collection practices began.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe may collect information about the images and audio that are a part of your User Content, such as identifying the objects and scenery that appear, the existence and location within an image of face and body features and attributes, the nature of the audio, and the text of the words spoken in your User Content,\u201d TikTok announced in the \u201cImage and Audio Information\u201d section of their new privacy policy. \u201cWe may collect this information to enable special video effects, for content moderation, for demographic classification, for content and ad recommendations, and for other non-personally-identifying operations. We may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under US laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints, from your User Content. Where required by law, we will seek any required permissions from you prior to any such collection.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span> member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, actor Ashton Kutcher expressed concern that China\u2019s Communist regime could use TikTok to push \u201canti-U.S. propaganda\u201d and influence younger American users of the social media platform.\u201cIf I\u2019m China &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591972","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=591972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}