A 77% of dense Americans say they remain concerned about Chinese ownership of Tiktok – even when the Trump administration clashes to cut an agreement to “save” the popular app, according to a national study taken from The Post.
President Trump has until April 5 to find an American buyer for Tiktok before his executive order delayed the implementation of a federal ban on the expiration application. Tiktok briefly went offline in January after his Chinese parent Bytedance ignored the January 19th deadline to completely deviate.
In general, 63% of Americans support either a complete ban on tiktok or a forced sale of the application for US owners. Only 19% prefer to be in control by the US surveillance, while 15% were well without changes in current ownership.
“The same people who voted for Donald Trump in office do not trust the control of the Chinese Communist Party over Tiktok,” Michael Sobolik, a US-China relationship and an old associate at Hudson Institute. “They don’t want any part of it and don’t want it to continue.”
Surprisingly, 36% of respondents who said they regularly used TIKTOK support by banning the app, which has 170 million US users.
The American part concerned about the control of Bytedance increased to 83% after surveys presented them details about the Laws of Internet Security of the Chinese Communist Party, which demand that companies respect the intelligence collection from Beijing.
When asked about their main concerns about Chinese ownership of TIKTOK, 88% of respondents cited the possible dissemination of misinformation, while 84% indicated political polarization within the SH.BA and 83% cited the possible cultural impact of CCP within SH.BA
The online survey was carried out by the Vandenberg coalition, a tank tank of non -partisan foreign policy and JL Partner Voting Firm. It voted for a national representative sample of 1,017 registered voters, with an error difference of 3.1%.
“The survey shows that a forced sale or even a complete ban are a lot of favorite options for anything that enables China to continue using TIKTOK as a fifth column,” said Carrie Filipetti, a former State Department official during Trump’s first term and executive director at the Vandenberg coalition.
On the issue of US data collection and the risk of US national security, 78% of respondents said it was a moderate, large or critical threat, compared to only 14% who said it was a minor threat or Not at all a threat.
More than four in five respondents (81%) said it was urgent to find a solution to the Tiktok dilemma. From that total, 54% describes the situation as many or extremely urgent.
Tiktok is also seen as an increasingly powerful force in US politics – with 66% saying that it has a moderate or large impact compared to 24% who said small or not at all.
“If there is to be a deal or sale, the data is clear – Americans do not want the CCP to have access to their data or algorithm, the period,” Filipetti added. “This means that we simply cannot replace Bytedance with another Chinese company, or even an American company with joint companies or headquarters in China, as they would undergo the same CCP impact.”
When asked to comment on the survey results, a Tiktok spokesman said they were “smiling” but did not elaborate.
In a big victory for Tiktok and her CEO Shou Zi Chew, Google and Apple resumed to allow downloads after receiving guarantees from US Prosecutor General Pam Bondi that they would not face fines. The sale or banking law of Congress initially imposed a $ 5,000 fines per user if they allow for downloads.
Tiktok has long denied that Bytedance employees can access US users’ data, despite reporting to the contrary. In 2022, Bukzfeed News received clips of audio from dozens of meetings in which Tiktok employees said Bytedance engineers in China could access US non -public users’ data.
“I think for the president, one way he can serve the voters who put him back to the White House is to protect them from the unjust CCP influence,” Sobolic said. “This is not something that voters should be educated for – they get it and they are really worried about it. I think it can really be Trump’s political benefit if it stays strong for the matter. “
The Supreme Court rejected Tiktok’s claim that the law of displacement as unconstitutional and found that the Feds had submitted “well -supported national security concerns”.
US lawmakers and the Department of Justice say TIKTOK served as a spying and propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party – facilitating everything, from collecting mass data to Americans to delicate manipulation of public opinion through its algorithm. Tiktok denies wrongdoing and says it is needed to protect US user data.
Last week, Trump sailed the possibility of extending the deadline on April 5.
Trump – who claims to have “warm place” for tiktok and credited it by helping him win the 2024 elections – said he wants “the United States to have a 50% ownership position in an enterprise of joint. “
The president created the first US Sovereign funding fund by executive order earlier this month and said he could potentially buy a TIKTOK action.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ar.), Who heads the Senate Intel Committee, wants “any agreement for Tiktok to result in a full break from communist China in accordance with the law,” said a spokesman for Punchbowl News earlier this month .
Despite returning to Congress, Bill Ford, CEO of the great shareholder of Bytedance General Atlantic, has claimed that there may be “short displacement” opportunities on the table.
In a sign of its importance to the administration, Vice President JD Vance was reported to talk to Spearhead in a possible TIKTOK sale.
Trump said Microsoft is in talks to buy Tiktok and suggested he wants a “bid struggle” for the app. He has navigated that opportunity for billionaire Oracle Larry Ellison or X -Musk owner Elon Musk being involved in a transaction – though Musk later said he did not plan to do so.
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