弗格森认为，蒂克托克正在洗脑1亿，主要是Z世代美国人，他们使用该平台成为“成为北京新革命的士兵”。
Writing in Bloomberg, Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, warned that TikTok was not simply a popular Chinese-owned video app, but “Xi Jinping’s imperial panopticon,” and a “superweapon” for Chinese domination of the world.
即使政府试图就禁止TikTok和华为等中国公司在隐私方面的争论展开辩论，政府仍将继续尝试禁止在家中对数据和通信进行加密。
Following Donald Trump’s Friday announcement that he would ban the popular Chinese-owned video platform, Microsoft has today swooped in to hoover up TikTok after it received “personal assurances” from the president himself that he would back such a move. Trump has given the two parties up to 45 days to hash out a deal. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent
在美国可能禁止TikTok的禁令之际，反华恐慌情绪上升，这表明此举与重建美国在社交媒体上的主导地位有关，而不是对隐私的担忧。
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed last night that he is strongly considering banning the hugely popular video app TikTok. "I don't want to get out in front of the president, but it's something we're looking at," he told Laura Ingraham. When the Fox News anchor pushed him further, asking if anybody should download the app, he responded, "Only
