Fox News’s Kilmeade clashes with Rand Paul over TikTok’s ownership
BY LAUREN IRWIN
03/14/24
https://rumble.com/v4j91f8-rand-paul-explains-how-the-tiktok-ban-is-unconstitutional.html
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) clashed on air Thursday over a potential TikTok ban in the United States and the ownership of the company.
Paul joined Kilmeade on “Fox & Friends” just after the House passed a bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S., handing the Senate the task of deciding whether the controversial legislation will land on President Biden’s desk. The bill would force TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to divest itself of the app or face removal from U.S. app stores.
Supporters of the bill say it aims to protect national security by preventing ByteDance from sharing U.S. user data with the Chinese government and seeking to influence American users to suit Beijing’s interests.
Kilmeade asked Paul whether countries “like Russia, China, North Korea and Iran” should own influential platforms like TikTok.
Paul pushed back on Kilmeade’s questioning, arguing that in reality, 60 percent of TikTok is owned by international investors, 20 percent is owned by the two Chinese software developers who began the business, and the last 20 percent is owned by the app’s employees, 7,000 of whom are American.
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