FBI Director Wray: Communist China Can Take Control Of ‘Millions’ Of Americans’ Phones With TikTok

On Wednesday, Chris Wray, FBI Director shocked U.S. senators by revealing that the Chinese Communist Party can take over the country. “millions” Of Americans through the immensely popular TikTok application.

“If you look at the Chinese government’s gobbling up of information and data, and then the use of AI and other tools, ultimately supercomputing, things like that, to marshal all that data to conduct targeting for espionage, targeting for IP theft, targeting for the all the things that I and others on this panel have been calling out about the Chinese government,” Wray spoke to the Senate Intelligence Committee. “Data is the coin of the realm, those who have the best information have the power and that’s what that enables them to do.”

Wray pointed out that Equifax’s hack in China allowed them to illicitly steal the Personal Identifiable Information of (PII), of almost half of America’s population.

“So it’s the control of the data to conduct all sorts of big data operations,” He said. “It’s the control of the recommendation algorithm, which allows them to conduct influence operations. It’s the control of the software, which allows them to then have access to millions of devices. So you put all those three things together, and again, come back to the starting point, which is, this is a tool that is ultimately within the control of the Chinese government and it to me screams out with national security concerns.”

Wray stated that communist China has the ability to use TikTok in order to access data from millions of people, as well as control software on millions upon millions of devices. This was in response to Marco Rubio’s (R.FL) questioning.

Wray warned then that China could use TikTok in order to dictate narratives within the U.S. and that U.S. officials can also be used by TikTok. “not sure that we would see many of the outward signs of it happening if it was happening.”

“And I think the most fundamental piece that cuts across every one of those risks and threats that you mentioned that I think Americans need to understand is that something that’s very sacred in our country, that difference between the private sector and the public sector, that’s a line that is non existent in the way that CCP operates,” Wray stated.

Rubio also noted that TikTok users in China are seeing different things than users in America. “For example, in the U.S. kids are being encouraged to choke themselves out, we’ve had kids die,” Rubio noted. “In China, they’re encouraged to focus on math and science and building the country.”

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Wray agreed to Rubio’s conclusion that there was no way for the government to control them. “poison” One of many ways China uses the app to damage and weaken the U.S. is by importing feeds from China.

“From FBI Director Wray: Communist China Can Take Control Of ‘Millions’ Of Americans’ Phones With TikTok“

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