The President of the United States published yesterday the executive order that announced the blocking, as of September 20, of the Chinese apps and services of large giants such as TikTok or WeChat, among others, for supposedly putting in endangers the privacy of the data of the American citizens who use them.
In the Executive Order and on August 6, President Trump outlined not only the measures to effectively block these services and applications, but also the reasons behind it. As we have already advanced, the main core of the executive order has to do with the alleged links of these services and apps with the Communist Party of China – information that is not completely verified, to which Trump makes special mention when pointing out that, in the case of TikTok, allows the Communist Party of China to access personal and proprietary information of Americans.
TikTok, in the focus of fake news:
While the main reason for the lockdown – beyond pure trade war – is to potentially prevent China from tracking the locations of federal employees and contractors, creating personal information files for blackmail, and conducting corporate espionage, there is another reason, a both ironic, for which these services have also been banned.
And it is that the United States Government considers that TikTok can be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Communist Party of China, such as when TikTok videos are used to spread discredited conspiracy theories about the origins of the 2019 new coronavirus, something that, paradoxically, the Trump campaign also does on North American social networks and that has resulted in several blockages of Tweets and Twitter porting and the elimination of several Facebook posts from accounts associated with the president’s electoral environment.
That is, other reasons the government hides to promote the suspension of TikTok has to do with the fakes news, and especially with the Coronavirus fakes news, when it is common in all social networks -especially to the Americans – and a rather complicated issue to solve