Freeing TikTok: Ending Chinese control of the social media platform would enhance free speech

It didn’t take Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation to alert us to social media’s pernicious effects on children and teenagers. And it turns out that TikTok, a digital application owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, goes viral in the minds of young people significantly more than Instagram, Facebook, X, and Snapchat — and Chinese divestment from TikTok would enhance free speech.

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