Former US President Donald Trump says banning short video platform TikTok will only help ‘public enemy’ application Facebook.
According to the report of the British news agency, the former US President Donald Trump has criticized a bill of Congress, in which Tik Tok’s parent company is forced to sell the app or ban it in the US.
Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020 as president, but now says the proposal would give Facebook’s parent company Meta an unfair advantage. Trump told NBC That without Tik Tok you can make Facebook big and I think Facebook is the enemy of people.
“There are a lot of people on TikTok who love it, there are a lot of young people and kids on the platform who would go crazy without it,” the Republican candidate said.
Note that the US intelligence community has warned that the Chinese government is using TikTok in an effort to sow doubts about US leadership and undermine democracy.
In an annual report on threats to US security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence wrote that TikTok accounts from the Chinese government’s propaganda arm allegedly targeted candidates from both political parties during the 2022 US midterm elections. .
Reacting to this, Trump said that he agrees with those who see TikTok as a threat to national security, but argued that Facebook is also a threat to the US government. I think Facebook has been very bad for our country especially when it comes to elections.
