TikTok is a money machine, but voters on both sides don’t know if it’s worth it

… Back in 2020, only two years after its global launch, TikTok said it had 100 million users in the United States. This week it announced the figure had climbed to 150 million. That figure represents about 45% of the 332 million men, women and children that make up the […] Read more »

Gen Z voters oppose TikTok ban, but worry about China’s influence

A new poll studying the attitudes of younger American voters toward TikTok finds that Gen Z voters oppose banning TikTok while millennials support a prohibition, even as a majority of all these younger voters express concerns about China misusing the social media app. Among registered voters aged 18 to 42, […] Read more »

The biggest decider of who backs a TikTok ban? If they use TikTok.

More Americans back a TikTok ban than oppose one, with a majority expressing concerns over the company’s links to China, underscoring that distrust of the foreign-owned app has spread beyond Washington, even as its domestic user base soars. A Washington Post poll finds that 41 percent of Americans support a […] Read more »

In U.S., Cyberdisruption Most Critical Threat

Americans are more likely to regard cyberterrorism as a “critical threat” to U.S. vital interests than to say this about 10 other international matters. The development of nuclear weapons by Iran or by North Korea place second and third in Americans’ mentions of critical threats in the latest poll. … […] Read more »

Spy agencies pulled 2020 vote study amid internal dissent

As U.S. spy agencies ramped up their work to catch foreign meddling in this year’s election, a team of CIA experts studied lessons learned from the contentious 2020 vote. Unexpectedly, their report sparked a controversy within parts of the intelligence community. In a rare move, their study was withdrawn shortly […] Read more »