A new poll found that a majority of American voters support a federal ban on Communist Chinese government-tied TikTok.
Lawmakers and experts have increasingly called for a ban of the hugely popular TikTok app due to its privacy and national security risks. Fifty-four percent of voters support a TikTok ban, a new Scott Rasmussen (RMG Research) poll published on The Daily Signal found. The number supporting the ban increased to 58 percent when those polled were asked “if TikTok could be used by [the] Chinese government to interfere in U.S. elections.”
The Daily Signal published the poll results from Rasmussen on Dec. 21. Even as young adults increasingly use TikTok for their news consumption, Americans are waking up to the app’s dangers. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) owns a board seat and maintains a financial stake in TikTok’s parent company ByteDance.
The poll results were also broken down based on age. Sixty-nine percent of respondents aged 65+ “somewhat” or “strongly favor” banning TikTok, along with 60 percent of those aged 55-64. Fifty-seven percent of respondents aged 45-54, 38 percent aged 35-44 and 43 percent of those 18-34 support banning TikTok too.
The Daily Signal quoted The Heritage Foundation Tech Policy Center director Kara Frederick warning, “From logging keystrokes to laundering pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) narratives to U.S. audiences, TikTok—via its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance—exposes Americans to a host of abuses by the Chinese government.”
TikTok has come under fire recently after the platform promoted anti-Israel and pro-terrorism content, The Daily Signal noted. Forty percent of poll respondents agreed that TikTok is “being used to promote divisive content about the war between Israel and Hamas.” A further 55 percent of respondents supported government action against individuals who call for Jewish genocide or promoted terrorist group Hamas online. The app even boasted about removing 500,000 videos with content related to the ongoing Hamas-Israel war.
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