President Joe Biden has received bipartisan backlash since his presidential campaign joined TikTok despite concerns about the app’s safety.
The bidenhq account has garnered over 122,000 followers on TikTok within the first few days since joining the Chinese-owned app he previously banned from the almost 4 million federal employee devices due to national security concerns.
Elected representatives from both parties spoke out against the decision due to data privacy and security concerns with the Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance.
“TikTok is a spy app for the Chinese Communist Party,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “It’s used to push propaganda on American kids and steal data. It’s shameful that Biden is embracing TikTok to compensate for bad polls driven by his mental decline.”…
