TikTok Controversy - March 31, 2023

Elly Rostoum, former US intelligence official, now a political science lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and David Green, Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, discuss the national security and civil liberties concerns surrounding TikTok, whose parent company, ByteDance, is owned by China, with host Carol Castiel. Democratic and Republican lawmakers, worried about risks to American users and national security, grilled the TikTok CEO at a recent hearing on Capitol Hill. Rostoum and Greene spar over the pros and cons of banning the popular social media app in the United States.