Laura: This is a national security imperative
Fox News host Laura Ingraham discusses how the United States must act against China potentially spying on Americans through TikTok on 'The Ingraham Angle.'
Fox News host Laura Ingraham gives her take on how U.S. lawmakers should respond to the CCP using TikTok to potentially spy on Americans on "The Ingraham Angle."
LAURA INGRAHAM: The CCP knew exactly what it was doing when its tech brainiacs set up the platform and planted it in the United States. The cooking videos, celebrity gossip, health tips, comedy sketches were a genius way to draw us all in, but that's not what China cares about.
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They want their system to dominate ours, and this is one key weapon in the information wars deployed through software tweaking whenever they see fit. That's the algorithm. This is why China's ByteDance is spending so heavily on lobbying. Check out the most recent data we could find from OpenSecrets.org.
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Since it started lobbying in 2019, ByteDance spent a stunning $17.7 million on lobbying. Lord knows how much it spent this year, but they've hired some familiar faces to stop this TikTok bill from passing the Senate. So, will Senate Republicans go the way of Swalwell, Ilhan Omar and the CCP? Or will they vote for what is pragmatic here: to keep the app as long as it cuts the pipeline back to the CCP? Seems common sense to me.