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The reason behind the TikTok ban
Congressional insiders spill the beans on how the law was passed
The memo, produced by the State Department for its Near East Affairs diplomats, describes how Nahshon, the Israeli official, blamed youth opposition to the war in Gaza on the TikTok algorithm. DownloadDownload Israel and China merged into the Biden administration’s campaign against TikTok, and in March of last year, a classified intelligence briefing was provided to Congress on the supposed threat of the social media platform. When TikTok pushed a notification out to its millions of users, urging them to call members of Congress to oppose the bill, Gallagher said it “proved the point” that the social media company was “brainwashing” American youth.
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