Webinar | TikTok Timebomb: The CCP’s Virtual Weapon Platform

Growing Chorus Recognizes Addictive App as National Security Treat, Urges Ban

The Chinese Communist Party has devised a product more addictive than fentanyl, more insidious than its traditional forms of “elite capture” and arguably more dangerous to U.S. security than Beijing’s rapidly expanding military capabilities. It’s an app called TikTok and untold millions of American young people are hooked on it and being seriously debilitated as a result – both in terms of their mental health and future prospects.

TikTok is best known for its silly dance micro-videos and other unedifying content. But a bipartisan array of legislators, regulators and other experts are warning that the app is a weapon being used to collect personal information, geo-locate, indoctrinate and otherwise promote disabling indolence among especially our youth. The dangers associated with these lines of attack are taking their toll in this country and elsewhere – except in China, where the videos on offer from TikTok promote instead patriotism, academic excellence and intellectual growth.

This CPDC webinar addresses the growing consensus that TikTok is a weapon of mass distraction and subversion; one that is truly endangering our nation and that cannot easily be contained; benighted Biden administration policies aimed at allowing the app to continue to operate inside the United States must be rejected; and there is an imperative need for banning it here at home.

Moderator:

- Frank Gaffney, executive chairman of the Center for Security Policy, host of Securing America with Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice Network, and vice-chair for the Committee on the Present Danger: China

Panelists:

- Video clips featuring comments critical of TikTok by: Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Member Senate Intelligence Committee; Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee; FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Federal Communications Commissioner Brandon Carr – Topics: “TikTok Represents an Unacceptable Risk to the National Security”

- Brigadier General Robert Spalding, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), PhD,: former Chief China Strategist for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; former Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council; and author, “Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept” and “War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for Global Domination” – Topic: “TikTok: Instrument of the CCP’s Unrestricted Warfare Against America”

- Connie Elliott, Subject Matter Expert on totalitarians and how they secure and maintain power; Member, Committee on the Present Danger: China – Topic: “How TikTok Advances the CCP’s Agenda of Destroying America”

- Col. John Mills, U.S. Army (Ret.), Veteran Special Operator, former Director for Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy and International Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; author, The Nation Will Follow – Topic: “The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States Must Not Legitimate TikTok’s Subversive Operations in America”

- Joe Allen, Expert on Transhumanism and “the Bio-Digital Convergence” – Topic: TikTok’s Algorithms from Hell; the Weaponization of Entertainment against the West”