I'm someone who's a former CIA officer and Pentagon official. I don't want them having facial recognition information on everyone who's going to be in our military or in the intelligence community. I don't want them [Chinese government] to be able to send push messages of propaganda to vote or not vote, to 170 million users. If this was controlled by Sweden or controlled by a company in Palo Alto, then they'd be subject to the rules and regulations of the western world. (04:07–04:23)
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Asserts concern over the potential for the Chinese government to send propaganda to 170 million TikTok users.
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