‘The tide is moving out on TikTok’: A conversation with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr

If TikTok could be said to have a chief antagonist inside the bureaucracy of the federal government, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr would be as good a candidate as anyone for that designation.

The commission's senior Republican, nominated to the body by President Trump, has repeatedly denounced TikTok in interviews and public statements for presenting a clear "national security threat." Motivated by leaks of audio from internal TikTok meetings showing that US user data has been accessed from inside China -- despite earlier protestations to the contrary from the company -- Carr has also gotten creative in his ongoing crusade against the video app.

He's sent letters to Google and Apple, for example, demanding an explanation for why an app like this that's shown to violate their rules shouldn't be kicked out of their respective app stores.

So far, Carr told me, only Google has responded to that letter. And it was with, as he puts it, a "word salad" defense acknowledging Carr's concern and promising that Google will look into the issue. No answer from Apple yet, but Carr isn't worried. "The tide is moving out on TikTok," he said.

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