Evening Edition: Senators Want To Declassify TikTok Intel

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

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Summary

A bipartisan group of Senators, who attended a closed door national security meeting, say the public should also be aware of the classified information they have on the influence and reach of TikTok. The meeting follows the House's recent passage of a bill that requires TikTok to divest or see itself banned in the United States. The Senators say they are very concerned with the amount of personal data TikTok shares with the Chinese government. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Jake Denton, Research Associate in the Tech Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation, about what could have possibly been said to cause the Senators to become so concerned. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm
0:05.0	Jimmy Phela I'm Einzel your heart I'm Bill Hemmer and this is the Fox News rundown
0:08.0	Thursday March 21st 2024 I'm Eben Brown a federal ban on the Tik-Toc app might be closer to a
0:16.7	reality now that more US senators seem supportive after receiving a classified
0:22.3	briefing but just what were they shown to make them more interested?
0:27.0	We probably have a very tangible real example that is being shared with these members that has made this very real for them and maybe has scared them in the direction
0:35.3	of support. That could have been the fire they needed to move this thing.
0:38.9	This is the Fox News rundown Down Evening Edition. From the Fox News Podcasts,
0:45.0	from the Fox News Podcasts Network.
0:49.0	I'm Ben Dominich, Fox News Contributor and editor of the Transom dot com Daily newsletter, and I'm The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill recently with overwhelming
1:06.4	bipartisan support that could require China-based bite dance divest its
1:11.5	popular yet controversial Tik-Toc app to an American company, or see the app
1:17.0	be banned in the USA. But the U.S. Senate seemed not as keen on passing the bill.
1:23.0	Some senators raised concern about First Amendment issues.
1:26.6	Tic-Toc, which offers users continual streams of short videos meant to be in joyful
1:32.2	distractions, has come under fire as being a data mining influence operation
1:37.0	directed by China's Communist Party, something China denies.
1:41.0	But out of concern for the bill's passing, the app sent messages to its 150 million
1:46.7	US users urging them to contact their elected officials and demand they vote against the ban.
1:52.6	But just this week, senators received a classified briefing by both the Office of the
1:56.2	Director of National Intelligence and the FBI, and they came out of the meeting not only ready
2:02.0	to take up the ban, Bill, but wanting to
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