WTH: Tik Tok, Osama bin Laden, and Hamas. Rep. Mike Gallagher Explains

Since the events of October 7, the Chinese Communist Party has
been spreading virulent antisemitic memes in the U.S. via its
favorite information warfare tool: Tik Tok. We have had episodes
on Tik Tok before, but the urgency of this issue has reached a
fever pitch, culminating with the celebration of Osama bin
Laden’s “Letter to America” on the app last week. Tik Tok is
pervasive – around a third of young adults use it for news – and
it is incredibly effective. It is not just the propaganda that is
convincing young Americans to hate America and ally themselves
with bin Laden, Iran, and antisemites everywhere. And it is not
even the losses on Xi Jinping’s “smokeless battlefield.” It is
the question of the easy control of young American hearts and
minds – which apparently march to the TikTok algorithm’s orders –
and the consequent control the Chinese Communist Party has over
American opinions and American politics. Bonus: There are also
transgenic mice.


Congressman Mike Gallagher has represented Wisconsin’s 8th
District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017. In the
118th Congress, Representative Gallagher serves as Chairman of
the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the
United States and the Chinese Communist Party, as Chairman of the
House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information
Technologies, and Innovation, and on the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence.


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