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Trump’s Cabinet picks are deeply divided over banning TikTok
Some of Trump’s staffers and Cabinet picks have large TikTok followings and opposed legislation to divest it from Chinese ownership, while others have called for an outright ban.
As President-elect Donald Trump assembles his White House staff and selects his Cabinet picks, an ideological divide has emerged around a hot-button topic: a ban on TikTok, the social media video app used by around half of the U.S. population. In the foreword to Project 2025, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts writes that TikTok and other social media platforms “are specifically designed to create the digital dependencies that fuel mental illness and anxiety, to fray children’s bonds with their parents and siblings. Sebastian Gorka, a Newsmax host and the incoming deputy assistant to the president, described TikTok as a “CCP instrument,” “a way to collect data from Americans, including children, and then exploit it for the purposes of the world’s largest communist regime,” on his show in April 2023.
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