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John Moolenaar: “The law requires a divestment and getting the Chinese…”

Featuring: John Moolenaar, Republican | U.S. House Michigan, 2nd Congressional District

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Rep. John Moolenaar says freeing the TikTok algorithm from China will be "up to the experts"

Published | Video Starts at 01:22

Have your national security concerns about the app and then about this transaction been addressed? Well, I think it's important that we note that The law requires a divestment and getting the Chinese Communist Party control away from the app as well as the algorithm. And it allows ownership only up to 20% for Chinese entity ByteDance. And to me, it's very important that that's carried out. (01:22–01:32)

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Asserts that a law mandates divestment from Chinese control over TikTok and its algorithm.

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