Amid threat of ban in the US, TikTok attempts to disassociate from China

“Americans need the truth but TikTok needs to be banned,” began Thursday Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chair of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, before giving the floor to the boss of the application. threatened with ban. The elected Republican of Washington State warned against the collection of data from the 150 million users in the United States, half of the population, by the application, which belongs to the Chinese group Bytedance. She fears that this platform could be used as a massive propaganda tool for China. “It’s as if the Soviet Union produced cartoons for our children during the Cold War. The current situation is even more dangerous,” she continued. For her, TikTok and China are not two separate entities.