TikTok Chinese Trojan Horse Run By Former CIA February 10th, 2024 TikTok is once again under public scrutiny. The video-sharing platform is the subject of a Senate hearing into child safety online. Republican Senators were quick to paint it as a nefarious Chinese plot to take down America. But apart from some blatantly racist questions, Senator Tom Cotton asked its Singaporean CEO Shou Zi Chew. A much bigger issue with TikTok is being swept under the rug that MintPress has previously investigated: that it is increasingly controlled by the US national security state. Since 2020, TikTok has spent more than $1.5 billion moving its data and security operations to Texas, where it has partnered with CIA-cutout company Oracle. It has also hired dozens, if not hundreds, of US national security state officials to control and oversee its trust and safety, security, and content moderation departments, giving these former spooks and spies extensive control over how the platform functions and what the world sees in our feeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98uh5INMijY https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-former-cia/286780/