TikTok is a children's app that's popular in China, but the US version is "addicting our children," according to one lawmaker.
Republican Rep.
Diana Harshbarger told a House panel last week that she's "deeply concerned about the ways TikTok is manipulating our children," the Hill reports.
The app allows users in China to send messages to other users in the US, but children under the age of 14 are only allowed to send messages for 40 minutes per day.
In the US, children under the age of 14 are allowed to send messages for up to an hour per day.
"The issue is when it falls in the hands of adversarial nations and malicious actors, which we see happening on a second-by-second basis with China, unfortunately," Harshbarger told the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee.
"Then you come over here and you see the opium version, which addicts our children," she said, referring to China's version of TikTok.
TikTok is run by Beijing-based firm Hangzhou Xiongjin Technology, which also runs the popular messaging app WeChat.
The US version of TikTok doesn't allow Chinese users to send messages to
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