“Estonia urges Europe to follow the US to ban TiktokEstonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsakhna called on Europe to consider banning TikTok following the example of the US. According to him, the application is used for disinformation and data collection, which poses a security threat.”, — write on: unn.ua
Foreign Minister Margus Tsakhna said Europe should consider banning the Chinese app Tiktok, following the example of the United States.
Tsakhna noted that in recent years, Europe has seen how TikTok is used to spread disinformation, fake news and manipulate election results.
The most striking example of this occurred very recently in Romania, where the results of the first round of the presidential election were annulled after it was determined that Russia had interfered in the election through a massive online campaign
He emphasized that applications such as TikTok do not provide a balanced presentation of information, but create conditions for the rapid spread of biased data.
“TikTok is not a means of mass information, but a weapon of influence,” he said.
The minister noted that Tiktok collects a lot of data about the user, but it is not clear who has access to this data.
Since Tiktok is owned by a Chinese company, there are legitimate concerns that data could end up in the hands of Chinese authorities. Last year’s Foreign Intelligence Service Yearbook also said that Tiktok collects a large amount of information that can be useful for intelligence gathering, extortion, and cyber-attacks. In light of the above, banning TikTok should be considered in Europe as well, given the security risks. At the same time, democracies must continue to discuss how to successfully counter the onslaught of hostile communication robots based on artificial intelligence with the express purpose of interfering with democratic processes
We will remind
In the United States, users no longer have access to the popular social network TikTok.