Is TikTok safe for Americans to use now?
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🗓️ 10 October 2025
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After months of uncertainty, TikTok’s $14 billion sale to Oracle and others seems poised to bring the app under US control. Yet lawmakers, once concerned about national security risks, are now flocking to the platform even though its algorithm and data remain under ByteDance’s management. While the deal may change ownership on paper, the deeper issue of addiction and influence persists. A Gen Z movement called Time to Refuse urges young adults to delete accounts and reclaim their lives—a call that echoes Jesus’ own: repent, turn from what enslaves, and replace vice with virtue rooted in him.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, October the 10th, 2025, and we're glad you've joined us for Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by our senior editor for Theology, Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:17.6 | When Congress passed a bill last year, requiring TikTok to either sell its American user base or shut down the app, |
| 0:25.4 | no one really knew how bite dance TikTok's parent company would respond. |
| 0:30.8 | At issue was a bipartisan fear that the Chinese government could and would force bite dance to surrender data on Americans as they did |
| 0:39.5 | during Hong Kong's 2018 pro-democracy protests. Fast forward roughly 18 months a year longer than |
| 0:46.8 | the congressional bill allowed, and it appears though the saga is now coming to an end. |
| 0:52.1 | Oracle, Fox Corps, and several other investors have agreed to buy |
| 0:56.6 | the company for an estimated $14 billion, and TikTok is expected to come under American control |
| 1:03.4 | as soon as the details are finalized. However, given that all this occurred several weeks ago, |
| 1:09.4 | you might wonder why I'm bringing it up this morning. |
| 1:11.8 | The reason is that an alarming number of leaders in our government have gone from fearing TikTok |
| 1:18.0 | to embracing the app since the sale was announced. Senators Adam Schiff and John Hickenlooper |
| 1:24.1 | both started accounts in recent days, while President Trump and Vice President |
| 1:28.7 | J.D. Vance both joined even earlier. Hickenlooper pointed specifically to the sale of the app as |
| 1:35.2 | his reason for confidence that it is now safe to use. The problem, though, is that nothing has |
| 1:40.6 | actually changed. Although the deal has been agreed upon, both the algorithm and the |
| 1:45.7 | data are still managed by ByteDance and are subject to potential manipulation by the Chinese |
| 1:51.2 | government. Moreover, the official policy of the American government still bans the use of the |
| 1:56.9 | app on any government device. While the officials who have joined TikTok since the sale was |
| 2:01.8 | announced have all done so on private devices, the basic concerns that led an overwhelming |
| 2:07.1 | majority of them to ban the app last year have not been addressed. And the biggest concern of all |
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