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- - - - The database discovery is leading countries like Australia and India to restrict or ban the use of WeChat.
      - President Trump’s Executive Order 13873 shares that a researcher found a Chinese database containing billions of WeChat messages from users all over the world
        including the US.
- - - - WeChat, a social media application that Chinese company Tencent Holdings owns, captures
        similar information from its users.
      - Concerns US national security officials because China may be able to track and gather Federal employee information and use it for blackmail and corporate espionage
  - - - Disinformation
        
        In March and April 2020, consumers and US politicians found TikTok promoting content containing
        COVID-19 misinformation.
        
        A video said that Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and the US government created the virus as a biochemical attack for population control.
        
        Some coronavirus videos sharing conspiracy theories or misleading cures contain more than 250,000 views and 25,000 comments.
        
        China may use the distribution of falsehoods to create fear or hate among individuals leading to an influence in the U.S. democratic process.
        
        TikTok’s community guidelines bans disinformation campaigns, but falls short on enforcing the policy by continuing to feature viral videos containing fabrication.
      - Censorship
        
        TikTok’s guidelines ask moderators to not promote post from users who appear disabled, fat, poor, or in the LGBT community as well as content defacing the Chinese police or religious leaders.
        
        China may strengthen its political agenda by influencing the knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors
        of users through censorship.
        
        Former employees reveal that TikTok regularly censors information as a precaution for avoiding penalties from the Chinese government.
        
        ByteDance instructs TikTok moderators to edit politically sensitive Chinese content, which shows
        alignment with Xi Jinping’s ideals.
      - Data Collection
        
        The company collects IP addresses, geolocation data, unique device identifiers, browsing, search history and
        more.
        
        TikTok’s Terms of Service show it collects GPS location, access to cameras and microphones, access to
        photo libraries, internet browsing history, call logs, text messages and copied clipboard text.
        
        TikTok’s data collection falls into three categories—device information, user content, and social media
        data.
        
        Apple’s security enhancements in the iOS 14.2 update reveal TikTok’s ability to secretly access user’s clipboard data. Examples of clipboard data include passwords, work documents,
        sensitive emails, and financial information.
        
        The company uses the data it collects in algorithms that curate the consumer’s experience on the social
        media application.
      - Ties to Chinese government.
      - Concerns US national security officials because China may be able to track and gather Federal employee information and use it for blackmail and corporate espionage