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Mitch McConnell on TikTok and China

Mitch McConnellU.S. Senate, Kentucky

Senate floor remarks on TikTok

“Today, one hundred seventy million Americans are active users of a social media platform that the People’s Republic of China treats as a tool of surveillance and propaganda.”

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McConnell on TikTok: take a tool of PRC coercion and espionage off the table
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Office of the Senate Republican Leader
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Apr 8, 2024
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Remarks text, paragraph beginning "Today, one hundred seventy million Americans"
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