Whoopi Dismisses China's TikTok Threat, America Has Issues Too

TikTok, the social media app controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, was a threat to the health of Americans and national security. But The View’s moderator, Whoopi Goldberg didn’t seem to care as she threw out some major whataboutisms and argued that America and its social media companies had their own problems to work out before they could force parent company ByteDance to sell. This wasn’t the first time the ABC host stood with China against America. “Is it smart to sell TikTok in an environment where all of the things that we're -- all the concerns we're talking about are not concerns we are protecting here?” Goldberg wanted to know. Self-described conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that, yes, American “social media companies have major private issues… But they get brought before Congress and there's a level of accountability and public outcry.” (…)

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