The head of the U.S. National Security Agency’s cybersecurity division said that the Chinese-owned application TikTok is China’s “trojan horse” and poses a long-term security threat to Americans, according to Bloomberg.
Instead of only looking at the direct threat of TikTok’s manipulated content, Rob Joyce said that the U.S. government should monitor TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. to avoid a security incident “five, 10, or 20” years in the future.”
“Why would you bring the Trojan horse inside the fortress?” Joyce said Monday at the Silverado Accelerator Conference in Napa, California. “Why would you bring that capability into the US when the Chinese could manipulate the data we see to either include the things they want to present to our population—divisive material—or remove the things that paint them in a bad light, which they would not like to be exposed to the American people?”…