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The broadcast networks were shamed into stepping up their game Thursday night and Friday morning in covering the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on TikTok as members of both parties put on one of the more bipartisan displays one could ever witness in these divisive times, but they still managed to slip in a few pathetic nods to so-called influencers.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is currently attempting to defend his company at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing. But is there anything he can say to assuage Americans’ national security concerns about TikTok?

Some leftist politicians have ignored the dangers of anti-free speech TikTok and its communist Chinese government-backed parent company, ByteDance, over national security and consumer data. Wonder why that is? Leftist politicians, groups and PACs cashed in thousands of dollars in political donations from TikTok’s employees.

The leftist Big Tech giants that waged a political vendetta against Parler when each banned the app from their platforms are now silent on whether or not the communist Chinese government-tied TikTok app should be banned.

Eight Big Tech companies and one tech industry group all went radio silent when MRC Free Speech America asked whether communist Chinese government-tied TikTok should be banned in the U.S.

ByteDance, TikTok’s communist Chinese government-tied parent company, used web-tracking pixels to surveil over 3,500 companies, including government agencies, a scathing report found.

Late Monday, President Biden relented and signed into law a resolution (passed unanimously in Congress) ordering the director of national intelligence to declassify what’s known about the origins of COVID-19. But, predictably, the liberal media weren’t entirely on board as Tuesday’s CBS Mornings ignored this story and instead featured segments such as a creepy and flirty bit with co-…

Sunday’s edition of CBS’s 60 Minutes sounded the alarm on China’s rapid naval expansion and included premier PLAN expert Toshi Yoshihara warning that China is outbuilding several Western nations combined and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday declaring his top priority is cutting down the Navy’s excessive maintenance delays that limit the Navy’s ability to keep up. The…

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, finds itself in more turmoil as a new Mar. 16 report suggests that the FBI and Justice Department are investigating the communist Chinese government-tied company’s efforts to spy on U.S.-based journalists.

Twitter erupted over President Joe Biden’s administration finally ending its two-year long appeasement of the anti-free speech, communist Chinese government-tied TikTok app as bipartisan concerns over consumer data and national security threats reached a crescendo.

The CCP strikes again. 

On Thursday night, Politico’s Daniel Lippman reported that the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok “hired top Biden-connected consulting firm SKDK” founded by current White House senior adviser Anita Dunn within “the last few months” to likely help it escape scrutiny and a possible ban from the federal government amid legitimate concerns its stored data can be used by the…

This week in the Washington Examiner, Justice Department reporter Jerry Dunleavy uncorked a series of reports uncovering a new scandal involving the school system in Fairfax County, Virginia, an ultra-blue suburb of Washington D.C. as their Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology has taken “hundreds of thousands of dollars from groups tied to China’s military.”

Commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr told MRC Free Speech America in an exclusive interview that “the tide is moving out on TikTok whether it’s in Europe or the U.S. and there’s really no amount of prevaricating and gaslighting that they can do at this point I think to avert that.”