thing done, and ticktock should not be there. but i want also for all of us to be ver very, very much aware that our privacy is not only a tiktok issue all of the social media platforms collect our information, and our privacy is basically for sale to the highest bidder out there that wants to engage in some sort of an advertising program. and then you can add the algorithms that feed us. uh information that may be correct , but it s certainly leads us down the rabbit hole of keeping us ill informed about the broader world. those algorithms really narrow our personal focus on what s going on in the world, and that s not good for democracy. it s not good for our individual lives. that s a good point. that s scary. how much social media companies know about are very personal lives. congressman john garamendi really appreciate your time. thank you. thank you. we ll march madness is living up to its name in a big way. the final
are you really going trust them with something that gets a lot of information? so i think it s just a matter of time. dan, this would be extraordinary decision, though, because you know we would not i can t recall a case where you have a company that has such broad use in the united states. where government would say sorry, you re out of business. it s a great intrusion into market choice by consumers, and investors. many of which are american in bytedance owner of ticktock. is this a good idea to do this? or is somehow china a special case? china is a special case. i mean it has back special case. there s no question this is a hard decision that somebody is going to have to make and yes there may be 150 million users out there that will be upset. but somebody out there, i think, has to speak in the interest of u.s. national security. and it is becoming clear that
project texas, which we ve reviewed and been met with tiktok that discussed project texas doesn t really address the core issue, which is control of the algorithm and so long as bytedance, which is the parent company that owns ticktock, which is effectively controlled by the ccp controls the algorithm. they can use this app as a platform for spreading disinformation influencing what news americans see. influencing future elections. that s the concern, which is why we favor either a band or a forced sale. we have the only bipartisan bicameral bill that would do either of those two things. and so i have not been satisfied with what i heard from tiktok on this issue, and congressman krishnamoorthi on the politics of this briefly. i mean, look, there are 100 and 50 million american users of this app, many of them younger people. secretary of commerce gina raimondo said recently that if tiktok is banned, the politicians me thinks you re literally going to lose every
i have seen no evidence of this happening. and in order to assure everybody here and all our users, our commitment is the move that data in into the united states to be stored on american soil by an american company overseen by american personnel. the commitment that she was talking about is project texas a $1.5 billion plan to store american user data on domestic servers run by texas based software giant oracle. now tiktok is likely to challenge any attempt to ban the app kim when the trump administration tried this in 2020 ticktock was ultimately successful in quashing that then alright. thanks so much. anna coren. appreciate it now for more on this. i want to bring in eric noonan, who s a cybersecurity expert and ceo of cyber sheath services international and enjoys me now from reston, virginia. thanks so much for being here with us. so you know, we heard there. the goal of tiktok ceo was to convince lawmakers not to ban the app
plan to store american user data . but the u. s lawmakers, christine, just we re not buying it as we as we heard, but, you know, i think we can we can. we can be very self assured that that you know if the u. s goes ahead and tries to ban the app that ticktock will no doubt challenge like they did when the trump administration tried back in 2020 interesting. alright, anna. nice to see you. thank you. so much. okay wherever he goes, benjamin netanyahu now faces protests. the israeli prime minister is in london this morning where demonstrations against his controversial judicial overhaul are underway. before leaving for the uk thursday, netanyahu gave a speech resisting calls to drop the overhaul. i hope youll rubbish of determined to fix to advance with its possibility that democratic reform that will bring back balance between the branches and i remind you we dealt with one issue only out of