Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has discovered widespread trigger together with her vanquished nemesis, former Rep. Joe Crowley, on behalf of TikTok.
The social media firm is dealing with a bipartisan refrain of criticism over allegations the app may very well be utilized by China to spy on Individuals. It’s already banned on federal authorities units.
Squad chief AOC got here out towards a ban on the embattled social community earlier this week, noting that “america has by no means earlier than banned a social media firm from existence, from working in our borders, and that is an app that has over 150 million Individuals on it.”
Crowley, the previous Queens social gathering boss and former chairman of the Home Democratic Caucus, was defeated by AOC, a socialist, in an enormous Democratic main upset in 2018. He has been quietly lobbying his former DC colleagues on behalf of TikTok.
Crowley has held quite a few closed-door conferences with lawmakers, two congressional aides instructed The Washington Submit. Since leaving Congress, Crowley has turn out to be a notable lobbyist round city, most not too long ago for the China-tied regulation agency, Dentons.
“I hadn’t seen him round this week however he’s been seen round since we had been sworn in in January. He didn’t attain out to me about this (I don’t take conferences with lobbyists),” AOC instructed The Submit.
Along with AOC, fellow squad members Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-Bronx) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) have additionally come out towards a TikTok ban.
Crowley didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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