FBI Director confirms TikTok is a national security threat to America

um I talked about Tik Tok in the opening uh just to lay the groundwork here Tik Tock is this American Tik Tok us American company or headquartered putatively in America and they have this platform which is fascinating right and and people it's very effective very good has a lot of members one of the things that powers it is that it is powered by an algorithm based on artificial intelligence where the more you use it the more it learns about you it in essence reads your mind it knows the kinds of videos you like and it feeds you more and more of them causing you to go back that algorithm is not owned by Tik Tok it's owned by bite dance a Chinese company correct uh that's my understanding and so the only way that algorithm works is if that Chinese company has access to the data being generated by Tik Tok the owner of the algorithm bite dance has to have access so it doesn't matter where the data is stored ultimately they have to have access to it in order to make the algorithm work correct right I mean is the the key point is that the parent company is for all intents and purposes beholden to the CCP well the reason why I rais that is if they if bite dance in China is the one that owns the driver that makes Tik talk effective isn't it true that under Chinese law the Chinese Communist Party says that data that you're gaining access to in order to make your algorithm work we want a copy of that data if they said that to bite dance in the future bite Dan would have to give it to them that's my understanding and if they went to them and said we want you to change your algorithm so that Americans start seeing videos that hurt this candidate or help that candidate in the upcoming election B an would have to do that under Chinese law that's my understanding and if they said we want you to put out videos that make Americans fight with each other or spread conspiracy theories and get them at each other's throat bite Dan doesn't have can't go to Chinese court and fight the Communist party they would have to do it that's my understanding and I would just add that that kind of uh influence operation or the different kinds of influence operations you're describing are extraordinarily difficult to Det Tech which is part of what makes the National Security concerns represented by uh by Tik Tock so significant right