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Rep. Gallagher: We can legislate a responsible solution to CCP controlled TikTok

Tonight, Rep. Gallagher joined Jake Tapper on ‪@CNN‬ to discuss how TikTok may be manipulating what you, your family, and your kids see online and the Select Committee on the CCP's related upcoming hearing titled, "Discourse Power: The CCP's Strategy to Shape the Global Information Space." Watch the hearing here:    • Discourse Power: The CCP's Strategy to Sha...   and read highlights of the conversation below. Jake Tapper: What has your committee discovered in terms of how the Chinese government might use TikTok to control the flow of information? Rep. Gallagher: Well, first of all, Jake, I want to say the analysis that you did in the previous segment was very important, and for TikTok to dispute the methodology does not make much sense. Because in mid-November, they were the ones who proposed this very methodology and pointed people to use this very same data of posts tied to hashtags. So it's simply using the methodology that TikTok themselves highlighted, and you start to see these anomalies, why there are certain differences between Instagram and Tiktok that don't make much sense. There could of course, be an endogenous variable, confounding the data. But right now, we don't have an explanation for the anomaly and I just found TikTok's response warranted further investigation. We're hoping to get into that tonight, but also tease out the connections between TikTok, their parent company ByteDance that owns them, and of course, the connections between ByteDance and the Chinese Communist Party. Jake Tapper: I just wonder, can the genie even be put back into the bottle? Rep. Gallagher: I think so. I think we can legislate a responsible solution to this issue of social media apps that are controlled by foreign adversaries, or countries of common concern, and pair that with a positive framework for how we regulate cross border data flows, which right now is the Wild West, and we don't really have any regulatory process. To me that's eminently possible. We're working on such legislation right now on the hill. But you know, and while I grant that social media in general is accessible, and it has adverse impacts on kids under the age of 30, in particular, the problem with TikTok, really the unique problem with TikTok, is its basic ownership structure, right? It is owned by ByteDance, which is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party and even if you hate Facebook, or you hate Instagram, or you hate whatever social media company in America, the same thing is not true of those companies. So that is the core of the issue, as well as all the reports we've had about how data might be being used. And then again, just the basic point, that TikTok is increasingly a news platform for young Americans. It's not just about the data. It's not just about spying or espionage. It's whether we want to allow it to become the dominant news platform in America. And I think that's a risk we can't take. // Subscribe to Rep. Gallagher's Channel!    / @mikegallagher3103   Subscribe to Rep. Gallagher's Newsletter! https://gallagher.house.gov/contact/n... Congressman Mike Gallagher has represented Wisconsin’s 8th District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017. Mike was born and raised in Green Bay, where he now lives with his wife Anne and two daughters. Mike served for seven years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps, including two deployments to Iraq. Mike also served as the lead Republican staffer for the Middle East and Counterterrorism on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and worked in the private sector at an energy and supply chain management company in Green Bay. Mike currently serves as Chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, as Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation, and on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. From 2019-2021 he served as Co-Chairman of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. For more information visit: https://gallagher.house.gov Follow Rep. Gallagher on Twitter:   / repgallagher   Follow Rep. Gallagher on Facebook:   / repmikegallagher   Follow Rep. Gallagher on Instagram:   / repgallagher