[scarface_74]

I don’t disagree with you. But as far as disinformation, why does it matter especially on the national level? How many people’s minds were changed?

We both agree that the Democrats didn’t give the non rabid Trump supporters a reason to vote for them and the rabid Trump voters were going to vote for him no matter what came out for or against him.

[abeppu]

We have no idea how many minds were changed. But everything public says that the foreign interference operations that are actually known to be happening are using FB, twitter, reddit, youtube and everything else, are mostly Russian, and we're shutting down TikTok b/c its Chinese owners pose some vague propaganda-related threat, which no lawmaker has described in detail.

Russian disinformation on US-based social media networks is clearly happening, is aggressive and persistent, and perhaps did swing things in 2016. If you think that's doesn't "matter ... on the national level", then surely the TikTok propaganda threat isn't worth shutting down a popular service for?

[scarface_74]

No TikTok isn’t worth shutting down. As for as Twitter, do you really need foreign interfere and propaganda when it’s American owner is putting its thumb on the scale?