Imagine it’s 1956. The first Cold War is raging. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev has told Western ambassadors: “We will bury you!” Out of nowhere, Pravda, the Soviet propaganda outlet, launches a bid to buy ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Such an effort would have been rejected by the American people and the government entities that protect their free speech.
Today, a more insidious version of this hypothetical is a reality. TikTok, a major source of news and information in America, is controlled by America’s geopolitical adversary, China. On Friday the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in TikTok v. Garland before deciding whether the company must comply with the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which I wrote and which requires ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese Communist Party-controlled owner, to divest itself of the platform by Jan. 19.
Read the full article in The Wall Street Journal.
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