Newsbusters
On Wednesday night, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill to ban the Chinese-owned TikTok from government phones that, if passed in the House and signed by President Biden, would mark another blow to the company that’s allowed the Chinese Communist Party to access personal user data, including contacts, pictures, texts, and videos and whose staff includes hundreds of former Chinese state media employees.
While the major broadcast networks have combined to spend 13 minutes and 59 seconds over the past month on their top morning and evening shows explaining that the popular app poses a national security threat, ABC’s Good Morning America refused to mention this on their Thursday show.
CBS and NBC did, however, mention it. CBS Mornings worked in a 32-second brief from co-host Nate Burleson:
Here in the U.S., the Senate has voted unanimously to ban TikTok on government devices amid fears the China-owned app could be used to spy on Americans. Republican Josh Hawley of Missouri introduced the bill after the FBI expressed concern the social media platform could be a major security risk to this country. There are worries the app could be used and subject to Chinese laws that force companies to share data with the Chinese government. The bill now heads to the House. TikTok has repeatedly denied those claims and says the bill does nothing to advance U.S. national security.
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