Vice President Kamala Harris declined to comment on the future of TikTok Wednesday, dodging questions about whether the popular social media app should be banned or regulated by the federal government.
For more than two minutes, Harris, 59, talked about his time in the Senate, “misinformation” and “Russian interference in the 2016 election” when asked by New York Times reporter and CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin about what to do with App Chinese.
“Well, I’m going to step back for a moment and say that one of the things that should keep us all awake at night is the level of myth and misinformation that is prevalent and has been facilitated in the most extreme way, by social media. There’s no question about that,” the vice president said at the New York Times’ annual DealBook summit.
“I have been a member of the United States Senate – [where] I was for four years. My favorite committee – I served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, where we would meet in SCIF, in a bipartisan way, and one of the reasons it’s my favorite is because when we go in there, people take off, no cameras, no public , people take off their jackets, roll up their sleeves, and we’re just Americans, not Democrats or Republicans,” Harris continued.
“I don’t comment on that,” Harris said when asked about his views on regulating or banning TikTok. Getty Images
“When I was on the committee, we investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election. And then we classified our findings. And it’s available for anyone here to read who’s interested.. Russia interfered in the 2016 election, targeting certain groups of Americans with misinformation and misinformation with the intent to undermine Americans’ confidence in our institutions,” he added.
At this point, Sorkin interjects, trying to bring Harris back on topic, but he continues to digress.
“I think we should take seriously the fact that not only individuals, but nation states, are taking very important steps to undermine the democracy of the United States, and it is our responsibility with one of the highest, if not the highest. important priority is national security, to take seriously any attempt to undermine our security as a nation. Period,” said Harris.
The Chinese-owned app has 150 million American users. Getty Images
The veteran journalist once again tried to pin Harris on TikTok’s rules.
“However, in the display on the social media side, you don’t have a specific view on TikTok itself?” asked Sorkin.
“I don’t comment on that,” Harris replied, adding that she doesn’t use TikTok but “a lot of people in my family do.”
His refusal to take a position on the government’s TikTok ban comes after the White House released earlier this year support for the SANCTIONS Act, which would have given the president the power to ban or prohibit foreign technology over national security concerns.
TikTok, which has 150 million users in the US, is owned by China-based company ByteDance.
More than 30 states have banned the app from state-owned cellphones and computers over concerns that the Chinese Communist Party could gain access to user data, which it is legally allowed to force ByteDance to provide.
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