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Tom Cotton: “TikTok addicts our kids, harvests their data, exposes them…”

Featuring: Tom Cotton, Republican | U.S. Senate, Arkansas

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Published | Video Starts at 35:55

That's why Congress passed an overwhelmingly bipartisan law mandating that TikTok's parent company sell it if TikTok is to continue operating in America. Why did Congress pass this law? Because TikTok is not just another social media platform. TikTok addicts our kids, harvests their data, exposes them to pedophiles, promotes harmful and manipulative content, including vile anti-Semitic videos. TikTok also silences, censors and suppresses content that exposes Communist China for what it really is, a monstrous tyranny. (35:55–36:08)

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Asserts that TikTok has negative impacts on children, including data harvesting and exposure to harmful content.

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