Recent allegations have surfaced accusing TikTok's CEO of lying to Congress about whether American user data was being transferred to China, prompting calls for an immediate investigation into perjury charges. U.S. lawmakers are urging for the passage of a bipartisan House bill that would force TikTok to divest from its parent company, ByteDance. They argue that as long as ByteDance owns TikTok, the platform will remain under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), posing a national security threat by potentially handing over American data to China. This legislative action is deemed crucial to protect U.S. national security.
Arrest @shouchew and force the divestiture of TikTok in our country. It’s time for the lies and tomfuckery to stop. @TikTokComms @tiktok_us @TikTokChina #China #Lies #Treason https://t.co/bcXCeZdijb https://t.co/YEClOwDUfs
The First Amendment doesn’t protect espionage. And the Constitution doesn’t require us to allow TikTok’s national security threat to persist simply because the platform also enables speech. Congress should require TikTok to break up with the CCP. https://t.co/joW6oJfqkn
TikTok has lied to the American people time and time again. Americans are being spied on by the #CCP and we are here to stop it. https://t.co/j09chVQlKq
More proof TikTok should be required to break up with the CCP. https://t.co/r4YOLNI4IG
This is exactly why TikTok should be divested from Communist China-controlled ByteDance. The Senate must take up our bill and send it to the President's desk to be signed into law. https://t.co/UQFxMHITRH
#TikTok is a national security threat! 🚨 We CANNOT let ByteDance get away with SPYING on Americans & giving our data to Communist China. It’s time for ByteDance to divest TikTok! #FL02 https://t.co/PijsOE9ld2
As long as ByteDance owns TikTok, employees will take their orders from Beijing - even if that means handing over the data of American users. The Senate must take up the bipartisan House-passed bill forcing TikTok to cut ties with ByteDance. There’s no more time to waste. https://t.co/j6Bo49rPqp
TikTok CEO blatantly lied to Congress under oath on the central question of whether American data was being transferred to China. An investigation should be immediately opened for perjury charges. The Senate should do its job and pass the bipartisan House bill with delay. https://t.co/2z3VsNDUTm
🚨TikTok is the Chinese Communist Party. Pass it on. https://t.co/2zCMR3efg3
"I literally worked on a project that gave U.S. data to China...There were Americans that were working in upper management that were completely complicit in this." Once @tiktok_us is divested, we need an investigation into Americans acting as agents of a foreign adversary. https://t.co/E2wKq8JH0T