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Elissa Slotkin: “They [TikTok] geo-located every one of those users, figured…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Rep. Slotkin: ‘I don’t want the Chinese govt controlling’ data of ‘170 million Americans’ via TikTok

Published | Video Starts at 01:43

We're all getting all these calls from kids as young as nine. And what. What they did is they sent a push message to every single user in the United States. They [TikTok] geo-located every one of those users, figured out who their specific member of Congress was, and then say, here's your member of Congress's specific phone number. click here in the app and call your, and lobby them. And we're getting all these calls from very, very young users without their parents knowing. (01:43–02:17)

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Asserts that TikTok used geo-location to identify users' congressional representatives and provided contact information.

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