December 21, 2022Five ways TikTok is seen as threat to US national securityMany in the United States see TikTok, the highly popular video-sharing app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, as a threat to national security."If we're talking about US citizen data, it's the Wild West," said Justin Sherman, a senior fellow at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy."Maybe with TikTok we are just clicking and installing the Chinese version of Pegasus on our devices...Tiktok insists that it has never intervened on content in ways to satisfy the Chinese government, but given the level of censorship that prevails in China, analysts warn that the threat for Beijing to lean on TikTok exists.Some experts wonder if TikTok can do anything to satisfy concerns given its origins in China, especially with the Republicans retaking the US House of Representatives in January."