TikTok vs America: A weapon in the New Cold War

TikTok, the Chinese video sharing app used by more than a billion people around the world, has become a battleground in a new Cold War between Washington and Beijing. Its detractors argue it has become a weapon of propaganda and data-gathering, though the company denies sharing user data with the Chinese government.

The app has already been purged from British and American government phones, and next year one US State is taking a step further: to remove TikTok from the app store altogether. In my latest documentary for The Telegraph, I went to Montana to investigate why they are taking the unprecedented move, and how it fits into a broader fight between Chinese hawks and doves across the West.

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