From WSJopinion: If Tencent can’t ensure American standards of free expression and privacy on WeChat, and if its algorithms appear to continue to promote anti-American content, the U.S. should ban the app, writes Seth D. Kaplan
The release of the so-called 'Twitter Files' continues, with attention now turning to Twitter's relationship with agencies including the FBI and DHS. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyWeChat is the most popular communications platform in the world for Chinese speakers. It’s also a preferred vehicle for China’s Communist Party to steal data, censor, propagandize and spread disinformation in the U.S., where the app has an average of 19 million daily users.
First developed by Tencent in 2011, WeChat is China’s “app for everything.” A billion people use it for texting, calling, video conferencing, playing videogames, shopping, paying bills, sending money, reading news and more. In the U.S., it is the most important source of news for Chinese students, immigrants and first-generation Chinese-Americans. But since it is a China-based technology product, WeChat is also a prominent part of Beijing’s mass-surveillance network.
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