New DOJ Filing: TikTok's Owner Is 'A Mouthpiece' Of Chinese Communist Party
In a new court filing, the Trump administration offers its most thorough explanation to date of why it considers the hit video-sharing app a national security threat.
by Bobby Allyn
Sep 26, 2020
3 minutes
The Trump administration is accusing the the chief executive of ByteDance, the owner of video-sharing app TikTok, of being "a mouthpiece" for the Chinese Community Party and alleging that the tech company has a close relationship with Beijing authorities that endangers the security of Americans.
The Justice Department on Friday night of its push to ban TikTok in a legal filing in response to TikTok's lawsuit asking a federal judge to stop Trump's
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