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TIKTOK’S PRO-CHINA TILT
A bill that will force the app’s Chinese owners to sell will soon become law.
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By David Leonhardt
April 24, 2024, 6:31 a.m. ET
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The debate over TikTok has shifted very quickly. Just a few months ago, it
seemed unlikely that the U.S. government would force ByteDance, the Chinese
company that owns TikTok, to sell it. The platform is popular, and Congress
rarely passes legislation aimed at a single company.
Yet a bipartisan TikTok bill — packaged with aid for Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel and
Palestinians — is now on its way to becoming law. Late last night, the Senate
passed the measure, 79 to 18, three days after the House passed it, 360 to 58.
President Biden said he would sign it today. If ByteDance does not sell TikTok
within 12 months, it will be banned in the United States.
What explains the turnabout?
I have asked that question of policymakers and their aides in recent weeks and
heard a similar answer from many. Parts of the debate over TikTok — about the
overall benefits and drawbacks of social media, for instance — are complicated,
and they would not justify the forced sale of a single company, the policymakers
say. But at least one problem with TikTok falls into a different category.
It has become a leading source of information in this country. About one-third
of Americans under 30 regularly get their news from it. TikTok is also owned by
a company based in the leading global rival of the United States. And that
rival, especially under President Xi Jinping, treats private companies as
extensions of the state. “This is a tool that is ultimately within the control
of the Chinese government,” Christopher Wray, the director of the F.B.I., has
told Congress.
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When you think about the issue in these terms, you realize there may be no other
situation in the world that resembles China’s control of TikTok. American law
has long restricted foreign ownership of television or radio stations, even by
companies based in friendly countries. “Limits on foreign ownership have been a
part of federal communications policy for more than a century,” the legal
scholar Zephyr Teachout explained in The Atlantic.
The same is true in other countries. India doesn’t allow Pakistan to own a
leading Indian publication, and vice versa. China, for its part, bars access not
only to American publications but also to Facebook, Instagram and other apps.
SUBJECTS MISSING FROM TIKTOK
TikTok hashtags as a percent of Instagram hashtags
A chart shows TikTok hashtags as a percent of Instagram hashtags on the same
subjects. There are vastly fewer TikTok than Instagram posts with hashtags
pertaining to subjects sensitive to China’s interests. For example, for every
100 Instagram posts with Taiwan-related hashtags, there were only about seven on
TikTok.
20%
40
60
Hong Kong
protests
0.6%
Tiananmen
Square
Subjects sensitive to
China’s interests
1
Tibet
3
South China
Sea
5
For every 100 Instagram
posts with Taiwan-related
hashtags, there were only
about 7 on TikTok.
7
Taiwan
Uyghurs
9
12
Pro-Ukraine
16
Pro-Israel
Normal ratios,
given Instagram’s
larger user base
46
Trump
50
Taylor Swift
Cristiano
Ronaldo
52
Black Lives
Matter
54
56
Barbie Movie
20%
40
60
Hong Kong protests
0.6%
Subjects sensitive
to China’s interests
Tiananmen Square
1
Tibet
3
South China Sea
5
For every 100 Instagram posts
with Taiwan-related hashtags,
there were only about 7 on TikTok.
Taiwan
7
Uyghurs
9
Pro-Ukraine
12
Pro-Israel
16
Normal ratios,
given Instagram’s
larger user base
Trump
46
Taylor Swift
50
Cristiano Ronaldo
52
Black Lives Matter
54
Barbie Movie
56
Notes: Data is as of December 2023. Actual hashtags do not include spaces. The
Black Lives Matter hashtag is #BLM.
Source: Network Contagion Research Institute
By The New York Times
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David Leonhardt runs The Morning, The Times’s flagship daily newsletter. Since
joining The Times in 1999, he has been an economics columnist, opinion
columnist, head of the Washington bureau and founding editor of the Upshot
section, among other roles. More about David Leonhardt
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