{"id":962743,"date":"2025-09-19T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962743"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:58:42","slug":"republican-lawmaker-raises-concerns-about-tiktok-divestiture-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/19\/republican-lawmaker-raises-concerns-about-tiktok-divestiture-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican lawmaker raises concerns about TikTok divestiture deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Wednesday said he is concerned by reports a US-China framework deal to shift app TikTok&#8217;s American assets to US-controlled ownership would still allow Beijing to influence the app&#8217;s users.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on initial reports, I am concerned the reported licensing deal may involve ongoing reliance by the new TikTok on a ByteDance algorithm and application that could allow continued CCP control or influence,&#8221; Representative John Moolenaar said in a statement. CCP refers to the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Wednesday said he is concerned by reports a US-China framework deal to shift app TikTok&#8217;s American assets to US-controlled ownership would still allow Beijing to influence the app&#8217;s users. &#8220;Based on initial reports, I am concerned the reported licensing deal may involve ongoing reliance by the new TikTok on a ByteDance algorithm and application that could allow continued CCP control or influence,&#8221; Representative John Moolenaar said in a statement. CCP refers to the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}