Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) fired off a letter (PDF) to the director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, warning “with over 110 million downloads in the U.S. alone, TikTok is a potential counterintelligence threat we cannot ignore.”
Cotton and Schumer, the Senate’s minority leader, wrote: “Given these concerns, we ask that the Intelligence Community conduct an assessment of the national security risks posed by TikTok and other China-based content platforms operating in the U.S. and brief Congress on these findings.”
TikTok says information from U.S. users stays in America. The app is not offered in China.