Whats Behind the Bipartisan Attack on TikTok?
b'A ban of the Chinese social-media app TikTok, first floated by the Trump Administration, is now gaining real traction in Washington. Lawmakers of both parties fear the app could be manipulated by Chinese authorities to gain insight into American users and become an effective tool for propaganda against the United States. \\u201cTiktok arrived in Americans\\u2019 lives in about 2018 . . . and in some ways it coincided with the same period of collapse in the U.S.-China relationship,\\u201d the staff writer Evan Osnos tells David Remnick. \\u201cIf you\\u2019re a member of Congress, you look at TikTok and you say, \\u2018This is the clearest emblem of my concern about China, and this is something I can talk about and touch.\\u2019 \\u201d Remnick also talks with the journalist Chris Stokel-Walker\\u2014who has written extensively about TikTok and argued against a ban\\u2014regarding the global political backlash against the app. \\u201cI think we should be suspicious of all social media, but I don\\u2019t think that TikTok is the attack vector that we think it is,\\u201d he says. \\u201cThis is exactly the same as any other platform.\\u201d'