by John Mac Ghlionn

"This," notes the report, "is in contrast with many other social media sites, where news consumption has either declined or stayed about the same in recent years."

This should concern all readers who care about the United States. As this piece clearly demonstrates, TikTok is an incredibly dangerous app that is most likely being weaponized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). More specifically, it's being used by the CCP to further divide a country that is already dangerously divided.

The Pew report states that, since 2020, the percentage of U.S. adults who regularly get their news from TikTok "has more than quadrupled," from 3 percent three years ago to 14 percent in 2023. Today, add the authors of the sobering report, "43% of TikTok users say they regularly get news on the site, up from 33% who said the same in 2022."

It's not often that journalists on both sides of the political aisle agree on a particular issue. However, with TikTok—from the New York Post to The New York Times, The Washington Post to the Washington Examiner—everyone seems to agree that TikTok is a destructive app.

This explains why Nepal recently chose to ban TikTok, saying the platform spreads content that negatively affects "social harmony." Nepal's neighbor, India, has also banned TikTok—for good reason.

Earlier this year, The Guardian published a piece meticulously outlining how TikTok appears to be part of the CCP's "cognitive warfare campaign."