government phones. so we re making the case. we have a long way to go legislatively. i had brendan carr on my show and he told me american kids using tiktok are bombarded with addictive content pushing self-harm, pushing eating disorders, while the chinese version of the app in china is pushing educational material and mandatory time limit so chinese kids can t be on that app too long. do you think china is doing that purposefully, trying to use tiktok to harm american children? the short answer is we don t know. brendan carr has called it digital fentanyl. i think that s apt for two reasons, one, it s highly addictive, highly destructive. increasing the rising rates of suicidesed and depression in american youth. like actual fentanyl, ultimately
the tiktok app itself. increasingly, since a large percentage of americans use tiktok to get their news, whether we want them to have the ability to selectively edit that news. it s as if in 1958, we would have allowed the kgb to buy the new york times, chicago tribune and more. a democrat, raj krishnamurthy, is joining me. we ve heard senator mark warner voice concerns in the senate. my hope is we make the bipartisan case. now every member of the senate is on record saying tiktok is a national security concern and it should be banned from government phones. so we re making the case. we have a long way to go legislatively. i had the top republican commissioner from the communication commission, brendan carr, on my show a few days ago,