The request of American Republicans to delete Biden’s account on Tik Tok

according to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, a group of Republicans in the US House of Representatives asked Joe Biden to disable his campaign account on the Tik Tok social network due to security concerns.

They said in a letter that Biden has ignored the national security risks of the social network Tik Tok. Now how can the government warn the American people about the dangers of this application while the president is using it.

Joe’s election campaign On February 11, Biden joined the TikTok social network to encourage and attract the votes of young voters.

Joining the Biden campaign to Tik Tok from there It is important that the owner of this application, the Chinese technology giant “Byte Dance”, is under surveillance in the United States due to possible national security concerns. Some American lawmakers have long called for banning the use of this application due to concerns about the possible access of the Chinese government to the information of its users or influencing what users see in this application.

Meanwhile, last year, the Biden government required the institutions of this country to remove the TikTok application from the mobile phones and other electronic devices of state and federal employees.

But TikTok officials have repeatedly emphasized that it does not share the information of its American users with the Chinese government and has adopted basic rules to protect the privacy of users.

By the way The Chinese government says TikTok’s data collection is a standard practice by thousands of apps around the world, and Washington’s actions in accusing TikTok of “blatant abuse” of relevant laws.

A Biden campaign official added: The campaign takes advanced security precautions for its electronic devices on which TikTok is installed, and the issue of their joining TikTok is separate from ongoing security checks on the app.

According to this report, Biden’s first video on this network has been viewed 6.9 million times and his user account has about 162 thousand followers.

While the White House, Tik Tok officials and Biden campaign officials have not reacted to this letter so far.

Meanwhile, last week Democratic Senator Mark Warner warned about the national security risks of Tik Tok and Biden’s decision to join this social network.

At the same time, Trump, the leading Republican candidate for the 2024 election, does not have an account on TikTok.

Nikki Haley, Trump’s only rival, in an interview with Fox News, once again emphasized his ban on Tik Tok and said: We should ban it from the beginning. we used to This application is very dangerous.  

Last month Tik Tok officials announced in a letter to the US Congress that 170 million Americans are currently using this application. This figure was 150 million people last year.

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