A billboard in New York City’s Times Square slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — generally known as “AOC” — as “AO-CCP” over her support for the Chinese social media app TikTok.
“The Chinese military is weaponizing TikTok to target American children. AOC argued against a TikTok ban… on TikTok!” the billboard reads subsequent to a photograph of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez that’s labeled “AO-CCP,” in reference to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The billboard was additionally an commercial for Peter Schweizer’s new e-book, Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, which was the results of a two-year investigation by Schweizer, the president of the Government Accountability Institute and a senior contributor to Breitbart News, in addition to his workforce of forensic investigators, into China’s “Disintegration Warfare” technique towards America.
A billboard promoting Peter Schweizer’s e-book “Blood Money” is seen in New York City’s Times Square on February 28, 2024. The billboard refers to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as “AO-CCP” attributable to her support of the Chinese Communist Party-linked app TikTok.
In the e-book, Schweizer traces lots of of billions of {dollars} in suspect cash linked to China’s undeclared struggle on the United States and sifts by way of “restricted” Chinese army paperwork and a “mountain of American financial records,” in keeping with the e-book’s description. Quite a lot of the restricted army data he uncovered pertain to the Chinese authorities’s use of the social media app TikTok.
As Breitbart News reported, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has mentioned that she doesn’t support a complete U.S. ban of TikTok, claiming it will be “unprecedented.”
A billboard promoting Peter Schweizer’s e-book “Blood Money” is seen in New York City’s Times Square on February 28, 2024. The billboard refers to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as “AO-CCP” attributable to her support of the Chinese Communist Party-linked app TikTok.
Quite a lot of U.S. authorities officers think about TikTok to be a nationwide safety risk and have due to this fact banned the Chinese app on government-issued gadgets, however the identical normal and issues will not be held for American youngsters, the demographic for which TikTok is hottest.
In addition to being thought of a nationwide safety risk, TikTok can be considered as a Chinese surveillance and psyops weapon thinly veiled as a social media platform, in addition to a bodily hazard to youngsters, because the app has been identified to push fatal “challenges” as trends on its platform.
In Blood Money, Schweizer additionally uncovered restricted Chinese army journals that reveal the Chinese Communist Party is utilizing TikTok as a “modern day Trojan Horse” to inject its propaganda into the minds of America’s youth.
The Chinese app has additionally been identified to meddle in U.S. elections. In 2020, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez openly cheered studies of youngsters and Korean pop music followers utilizing the Chinese-owned app to enroll for President Trump’s marketing campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and inflate RSVP numbers.
Ironically, TikTok suggests it’s not political by banning sure ads on its platform.
Recently, the Chinese app rejected adverts for Schweizer’s Blood Money e-book, deeming it too “political.” TikTok has additionally denied an advert selling consciousness of the plight of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, saying it was “too political.”
Meanwhile, TikTok’s dad or mum firm, the Chinese tech firm ByteDance, is beholden to the hostile international nation, with one among its former executives revealing that the CCP had “supreme access” to all knowledge held by ByteDance, together with on servers within the United States.
Moreover, ByteDance has additionally been caught snooping on U.S. journalists.
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