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Congress passed a bill in March that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless ByteDance sells its U.S. operations to non-Chinese owners.
“While neither I nor my company intends to gain or lose anything as a result of this bill, I can see how TikTok could be weaponized by foreign adversaries,” Khosla wrote. Editorial Contributed to Tuesday’s Financial Times.
In the op-ed, Khosla accused China of perpetuating double standards as Chinese consumers use Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. Also, unlike TikTok, Douyin users under the age of 14 can access the platform for only 40 minutes per day.
“Spinach is for children in China, and fentanyl is another major export of China for us,” Khosla said. “Even worse, TikTok is programmable fentanyl, and its effects are under the control of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Khosla said that having ByteDance sell TikTok would “prevent the platform from being dominated by foreign adversaries” that could “covertly manipulate the American public” and “further the objectives of the Chinese Communist Party.” He said that there is.
“TikTok uses algorithms powered by advanced artificial intelligence, and it plays into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,” Khosla wrote.
“We should recognize that TikTok is an AI-powered weapon of destruction and treat it like any other weapon or material associated with our homeland or defense industry,” he added, adding that the United States should “recognize that TikTok is an AI-powered weapon of destruction and treat it like any other weapon or material connected to our homeland or defense industry.” It added that it had banned Huawei routers over similar concerns.
Representatives from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider outside of normal business hours.
Khosla is not alone in his suspicions about TikTok.
Approximately 3 in 5 Americans, or 60% of Americans, are surveyed. Pew Research Center In 2023, it said it considered the platform a threat to national security.
It probably doesn’t help that Chinese propaganda activists have been accused of using TikTok to influence the US election.
US intelligence agencies claim that Annual threat assessment report It was announced in March that China’s propaganda arm had used TikTok accounts to target Republican and Democratic candidates during the 2022 midterm elections.
Representatives for TikTok did not immediately respond to BI’s request for comment.