Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley says China-owned TikTok should be banned in the United States and teenagers shouldn’t be kept in the dark as to why.
GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley believes honesty is the best policy when explaining the need for a TikTok ban to teenagers.
The social media app has proven especially popular with younger generations. According to estimates, the United States has the largest TikTok audience at over 135 million, and nearly half of those users are under 30.
“I think what we need to do is we need to be honest with them, you know, you don’t tell them this is what we’re going to do and not explain why,” Ms. Haley said.
“The reason we want to ban TikTok, and yes, I think we need to ban it, is because it’s an app that actually goes and has access to your contacts, to your financial information, to your camera, to your recorder, to everything. It’s infiltration; we know that,” she said.
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