National Review by Jimmy Quinn
Republican lawmakers are requesting an intelligence briefing about TikTok’s new “elections center,” voicing concerns that the initiative could allow the Chinese Communist Party to interfere in U.S. elections and collect sensitive data on U.S. political activity, including voter-registration information. The group, led by Representatives Jim Banks and Michael Waltz, explained the concerns in a letter sent this week to Jeffrey Wichman, the U.S. intelligence community’s top official on foreign political interference.
“TikTok, an overseas subsidiary of Chinese company ByteDance, which has members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on its board, will be policing American political discourse and owning the data of potentially millions of voters,” wrote the lawmakers, in the letter obtained exclusively by National Review. “This new Elections Center could provide an unprecedented political surveillance and election interference tool for the Chinese Communist Party, our foremost foreign adversary.”…
