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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The White House comes out in support of a bill giving it the power to ban TikTok and

other foreign technologies as the Senate votes overwhelmingly to overturn a rewrite of

the District of Columbia Criminal Code.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues on the editorial board, TikTok influencers, K to

batch all their Odell and Colin Levy.

TikTok is this Chinese social media app very popular with teens and youth and has come

under some controversy not only now but in the Trump administration as well when it

reportedly divested some of its U.S. assets.

But it seems that Congress and the authorities in Washington don't really trust that that

is an arms length transaction.

Let's start with FBI director Christopher Ray.

This is him speaking at a Senate hearing this week about his concerns on letting TikTok

operate in the United States.

It's the control of the data to conduct all sorts of big data operations.

It's the control of the recommendation algorithm which allows them to conduct influence operations.

It's the control of the software which allows them to then have access to millions of devices.

You put all those three things together and again come back to the starting point which

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