About six-in-ten Americans (59%) see TikTok as a major or minor threat to national security in the United States, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults that comes as the platform faces scrutiny from lawmakers over its ties to China and the security of users’ data.
Just 17% of Americans say the platform is not a threat to national security and another 23% aren’t sure.
Opinions about the national security threat posed by TikTok differ along partisan lines, as was the case in another recent survey that asked Americans about a government ban on the platform.
