Federal cyber agency’s leader supports banning TikTok, frets China using it to influence elections -
President Biden has not publicly reached a formal determination about whether to pursue a nationwide ban of the China-founded app, but momentum for legislation empowering him to enact a blockade has grown in Congress in recent weeks.
She said China might use TikTok data against Americans to sow discord and distrust, undermining confidence in elections. “We have much more visibility to be able to say, ‘We are seeing malicious activity on those networks’ and we do this obviously in concert with federal agencies,” she said. “It enables us to say there’s risky technology like, for example, TikTok on federal government devices or risky technology from foreign adversaries on some of our technology.”
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