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The Kevin Roberts Show: The Threat of TikTok | The Kevin Roberts Show with Larry O’Connor

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We’ve long known that TikTok pushes dangerous content that has caused harm to teenage girls, but we now know that TikTok has also been used by the CCP for influencing U.S. elections and to collect massive amounts of Americans’ personal, private data. Kevin Roberts and Larry O’Connor break down exactly what the threats are and […]

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0:00.0

The problem with TikTok in the United States is that our freedom is being used against us.

0:04.5

Yeah.

0:04.9

Our openness is being used against our very own people, particularly if we just look at this from the

0:09.9

micro level, teenagers and teenage girls in particular, on that issue alone, that just very

0:15.7

convincing research alone, we should hate this app.

0:18.1

It's not out of an opposition to social media, although we

0:21.4

ought to be careful about that too. Yeah, it's funny when people respond to you and say, oh, sure,

0:25.9

you're against TikTok, but what's next? Facebook. And it's like, okay, yeah, we'll get to that next.

0:29.4

But don't, don't start with a good time. By the Chai Cobbs. Let's at least start with the

0:34.5

ones owned by the Chinese communist.

0:48.9

Welcome back to the Kevin Roberts Show.

0:49.8

I'm Larry O'Connor.

0:53.8

And today we're talking about something that millions and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Americans use every single day.

0:56.9

You're using it right now, social media.

0:59.5

But we're specifically talking about TikTok, that Chinese-owned platform that goes well beyond just trendy dances and recipes and other strangeness.

1:09.7

No, TikTok is actually a device that was created by the

1:14.7

Communist Party in China to shape how Americans, especially younger Americans, think about

1:20.1

their culture, their politics, even their own identity. This is incredibly serious and

1:26.4

incredibly dangerous. And we're going to get right to the heart

1:29.7

of it with Dr. Kevin Roberts. After all, it's the Kevin Roberts show. Dr. Roberts, thank you for this

1:34.8

very important issue. Larry, thanks for letting me join you on my show. As usual, I did a deep dive

1:42.3

on the heritage website, Daily Signal. You guys have been on top of this almost from the get-go, I want to say.

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