Kutcher warns China could use TikTok to undermine US naval support.
Ashton Kutcher · Ashton Kutcher Warns China Could Use TikTok Against the U.S. · Joe Lonsdale · Jun 29, 2021 · at 22:49
Ashton Kutcher explains to Joe Lonsdale how Chinese ownership of TikTok could be weaponized for information warfare and geopolitical leverage.
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“If I'm China and I want to create a problem in in in that area of the world specifically a Naval problem in that area of the world. I, in the South China sea, I would probably want to utilize TikTok in order to influence the minds of Americans in a anti-US propaganda, anti-Taiwanese propaganda effort in order to make any kind of war from the United States extraordinarily unpopular in order to defend the South China Sea.”
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