Indiana attorney general urges Hoosiers to delete TikTok app from their devices

The state's chief legal officer is urging all Hoosiers and Indiana-based companies to "patriotically delete" the TikTok video-sharing application from every one of their

smartphones and other mobile devices.Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Republican originally from Munster, claims TikTok is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), through

the government of China, and the app is being used to manipulate and spy on Americans."Indiana residents should not wait for Congress and the Biden White House to take action

against this deceptive social networking app. We’ve got to take the initiative ourselves," Rokita said.Records show TikTok is the most popular app in the world with more than 3.5

billion downloads since 2018. Some 130 million Americans, including two-thirds of U.S. teenagers, report regularly using the video-sharing program. People are also reading…

Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita speaks along the U.S.-Mexico border about immigration, drugs, and other border issues Rokita believes, however, TikTok is

designed to use Americans' smartphones to capture their attention and track their behavior, and he contends the app is riddled with security flaws that could transmit users'

personal data directly to the Chinese government.In addition, Rokita claims TikTok misleads Americans by exposing them to sexually lewd content that isn't available to Chinese

users of the app operated by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd."The app is not only full of toxic material, which is highly inappropriate for children, but it also opens us up to foreign

threats. Specifically, it allows a Chinese company overseen by the CCP to take our data," Rokita said."China has said they want to be the dominant force in the world. This kind of

technology is part of that strategy. We need patriots who will fight back against the dangers imposed by this app and others that are no doubt on the way," he added.Earlier this

month, Rokita filed two lawsuits against ByteDance at the superior court in Fort Wayne alleging TikTok videos routinely expose children to adult content and claiming the company

fails to protect the personal information of Hoosier consumers."The TikTok app is a malicious and menacing threat unleashed on unsuspecting Indiana consumers by a Chinese company

that knows full well the harms it inflicts on users," Rokita said upon filing the lawsuits. "In multiple ways, TikTok represents a clear and present danger to Hoosiers that is

hiding in plain sight in their own pockets."At the very least, the company owes consumers the truth about the age-appropriateness of its content and the insecurity of the data it