Peter Schweizer to Newsmax: TikTok an ‘Absolute National Security Threat’

TikTok, as long as it remains under parent company ByteDance, poses an “absolute national security threat” because of its connections with the Chinese Communist Party and its use to manipulate public opinion, investigative author Peter Schweizer said on Newsmax Saturday. 

“It’s more than just a typical Chinese company that’s subject to the direction of the CCP,” Schweitzer, the author of the best-seller “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” told Newsmax’s “Saturday Report.”

“What you have to understand is that the algorithm that TikTok uses is not only a company secret, the Chinese government has designated it a state secret.”

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