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Tom Cotton: “TikTok also silences, censors and suppresses content that…”

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

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'Appeasement And Weakness': Tom Cotton Blasts Dem Lawmakers Over Foreign Policy Issues | 2025 Rewind

Published | Video Starts at 36:07

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. The truth about China's genocide against the Tibetan and Uyghur peoples, the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the crackdown on Hong Kong, the origins of COVID and more all disappeared behind the veil of TikTok's algorithm. (36:07–36:19)

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