The CEO of TikTok showed up to Capitol Hill yesterday to persuade lawmakers not to ban the social

media app and things did not go particularly well. Do you disagree with FBI director Ray and

NSA director in Neckosoning when they said that the CCP could have the capability to manipulate

data and send it to the United States? Do you disagree with their statement?

The statement says could. So do you disagree with that?

No, I don't disagree with that. Okay, so it is possible that the CCP

under the auspices of bite dance, which is your parent company, which you get paid from,

has the ability to manipulate content that is being shared with 130 million Americans. Yes.

Congressman, I watch this one, make sure I'm understanding all these questions.

The TikTok CEO admitted that the Chinese Communist Party is able to manipulate the extremely

addictive content, warping the minds of 130 million Americans every day. China can spread

highly targeted propaganda to half the country. They can also spy on us, collecting countless data

to use against us. A big problem for our American government, which prefers to spy on us and spread

propaganda and warp our minds itself. I'm Michael Nolz, this is the Michael Nolz Show.

Welcome back to the show. We will get to in just a moment my absolute favorite moment from any

legislative committee hearing in the entire history of politics. It might be my favorite

political moment that I've ever seen on video. But before we get to that, we've got to get to

TikTok because everyone is reporting on the TikTok testimony as though it was just absolutely

terrible, a total failure. It was always going to be a little bit awkward because the CCP does have

a ton of access to TikTok and can use TikTok to push propaganda to half of the country.

When we say push propaganda and manipulate content and warp minds, it's not exactly the same as

when you're doom scrolling on TikTok. The average user of TikTok uses the app for a few minutes

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