{"id":13689,"date":"2024-03-13T04:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T03:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/china-could-use-tiktok-to-influence-us-elections-spy-chief-says\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T04:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T03:37:15","slug":"china-could-use-tiktok-to-influence-us-elections-spy-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/china-could-use-tiktok-to-influence-us-elections-spy-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"China could use TikTok to influence US elections, spy chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill giving Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to sell that part of its business<\/p>\n<p>China could use social media app TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections, the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, has told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi if China\u2019s ruling Communist party (CCP) would use TikTok to influence the elections, Haines said \u201cwe cannot rule out that the CCP would use it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/13\/china-tiktok-us-election-influence-avril-haines-us-house-of-representatives\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/37e3641a4ef6ed28354396ff362d9c272c249a8d\/0_233_2737_1642\/master\/2737.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=726a7108b6c24dbb1aeadb16a10675e0\" title=\"China could use TikTok to influence US elections, spy chief says\" \/>The US House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill giving Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to sell that part of its business<br \/>\nChina could use social media app TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections, the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, has told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing.<br \/>\nAsked by Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi if China\u2019s ruling Communist party (CCP) would use TikTok to influence the elections, Haines said \u201cwe cannot rule out that the CCP would use it\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill giving Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to sell that part of its business China could use social media app TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections, the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, has told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/china-could-use-tiktok-to-influence-us-elections-spy-chief-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China could use TikTok to influence US elections, spy chief says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}