US politicians claim that TikTok is the "spiritual opium" fed by China. What is the US afraid of?

TikTok's expansion in the United States is undoubtedly successful.
It seems that it has occupied the mobile phones of American teenagers overnight.
It has far-reaching influence, ranging from comedy to education, from news to music, to lifestyle.
TikTok has even affected our eating habits.
In January 2021, people on TikTok were crazy to share videos about Baked Feta Pasta, setting off a Baked Feta Pasta trend, which led to a 200% surge in sales of goat cheese in February that year (source: CNN), attracting "attention" and "money" "black holes" "TikTok has a wide range of users, and it seems that users attracted by it are hard to" escape ", I am deeply involved in this application and spend a lot of time on it every day.
In 2021, TikTok will have more visits to its website than Google, and American users will have more viewing time than YouTube.
It took Facebook nearly nine years to reach 1 billion users, and TikTok only five years.
TikTok not only brought popularity to Adrianna Wise's bakery, but also shared her entrepreneurial experience with colored people in the community.
Some online celebrities who made a living on TikTok said that they could not imagine that their life without it (source: CNN) would attract enterprises and brands to put billions of dollars in advertising on this platform due to its huge commercial value.
Before the mid-term election, quite a few American politicians carried out election campaigns on TikTok.
The Associated Press and other traditional news organizations with 176 years of history recently joined TikTok to attract new audiences.
TikTok's ambition goes beyond that.
A series of recent recruitment information shows that the company is building its own warehousing network in the United States, trying to shake Amazon's e-commerce empire.
Teenagers 「 "Spiritual 」 Opium 」" According to a recent report of the Center for Combating Digital Hate (CCDH), an American non-governmental organization, TikTok pushes harmful content about eating disorders, self mutilation and sexual assault to teenagers every 39 seconds.
Tristan Harris, an American technical ethicist, said in a recent interview with the CBS flagship program 60 Minutes: "ByteDance realized that its technology is affecting the development of children.
They made Tiktok in China a version of education for fun, but promoted harmful opium versions to other parts of the world." Tristan Harris said in an interview, China's Tiktok pushed the content of scientific experiments, museum exhibitions and patriotic education to teenagers, and limited the viewing time to 40 minutes a day (source: YouTube) TiKTOK's "eventful times".
In the past six months, TiKTOK and ByteDance were accused of lying about Chinese employees' access to American user data.
It used a news app to promote the spread of pro Chinese content overseas, And allow Chinese official media accounts not to be tried