FBI Director Christopher Wray on Friday outlined key threats posed by video sharing app TikTok and said that U.S. officials are still working on how to address the app’s national security concerns.
Wray said that the FBI has security concerns about Tiktok, which is owned by private Chinese company Bytedance.
“[TikTok’s] parent company [Bytedance] is controlled by the Chinese government and it gives them the potential to leverage the app in ways that I think should concern us,” Wray told an audience at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
He said that the app gives the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) the ability to control the recommendation algorithm, which “allows them to manipulate content, and if they want to, to use it for influence operations.”…