{"id":4274,"date":"2024-02-12T16:57:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/biden-campaign-joins-tiktok-after-admin-purged-app-from-federal-devices-over-security-concerns\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T16:57:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:57:49","slug":"biden-campaign-joins-tiktok-after-admin-purged-app-from-federal-devices-over-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/biden-campaign-joins-tiktok-after-admin-purged-app-from-federal-devices-over-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden campaign joins TikTok after admin purged app from federal devices over security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Biden’s<\/a>\u00a0re-election campaign has joined TikTok in an effort to woo young voters after the administration banned the Chinese-owned app from federal devices over security concerns.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Biden’s campaign announced they joined the platform with a video of the president answering Super Bowl questions as the game was underway.<\/p>\n

The campaign made the move after\u00a0reports surfaced<\/a>\u00a0late last year that they were mulling joining the app. However, a campaign spokesperson downplayed the move at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It also came after the\u00a0Biden administration<\/a>\u00a0banned the app over security concerns. Last February, the administration set a 30-day deadline for government agencies to purge the app from federal devices.<\/p>\n

The social media platform, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is popular among younger Americans. Biden has previously joined forces with TikTok influencers amid his re-election run, and the Democratic National Committee also joined the platform.<\/p>\n

The president’s campaign joining the Beijing-based social media platform could present unique security risks. Most notably, the Chinese Communist Party’s cybersecurity law allows government authorities to access companies’ data.<\/p>\n

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Many Republicans resist using TikTok due to data security concerns, while an increasing number of Democrats have adopted the platform.<\/p>\n

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has railed against TikTok, saying last month<\/a> that it should be “banned” and that the CEO is “lying” about the app being safe for Americans.<\/p>\n

“The evidence that China is using TikTok to spy on and influence American citizens is clear, and it only keeps mounting as time goes on,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., previously wrote in a\u00a0Fox News Digital op-ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Moreover, Beijing’s influence on ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is undeniable,” he said. “Not only does Chinese law compel ByteDance to hand over data at a moment’s notice, but the Chinese government also holds an ownership stake in the tech giant’s key domestic subsidiary.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Biden campaign for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Biden’s\u00a0re-election campaign has joined TikTok in an effort to woo young voters after the administration banned the Chinese-owned app from federal devices over security concerns. On Sunday, Biden’s campaign announced they joined the platform with a video of the president answering Super Bowl questions as the game was underway. The campaign made the move … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}