TikTok Pushes Sexual Content To Minors While Censoring Christian Games: Report
All seven accounts soon 'encountered pornographic content just a small number of clicks after setting up the account.'All seven accounts soon 'encountered pornographic content just a small number of clicks after setting up the account.'TikTok is the new tobacco — and it’s leaving an entire generation lost
A “gigantic mental health catastrophe" began in 2012, and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt believes that overprotecting children in the real world — by not letting them out to play and develop independence — and under-protecting them online is to blame.
Especially now that around every corner is an app fighting for your child’s attention.
“We have all kinds of documents, leaks, docu reports that came out in lawsuits where we hear them talking about all the harm they’re causing and all the things they’re doing to cause addiction. These platforms are designed to grab our kids' attention and never let go because if they let go, it’s going to go to their competitor,” Haidt tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Podcast.”
“So I think now that the case is pretty much closed, the argument that ‘Oh well, we just don’t know, we need to gather more information,’ you know, that was the tobacco industry playbook decades ago,” he explains.
Haidt calls it an “evil industry,” with TikTok, Meta, and Snapchat “harming children at an industrial scale.”
“We’re not just talking like a few hundred kids. We’re talking literally tens of millions are harmed and thousands are dead. So I do think that this is having a very pernicious effect on society, on children,” he says.
And it’s not only affecting their attention spans.
“They need to make lots of mistakes and learn from them. And then especially during puberty ... when the brain is changing very, very fast. It’s rewiring from the child to the adult form. And so if in puberty, kids are not out there having adventures and flirting and getting embarrassed and getting in arguments ... if they’re not out there having real world experience, it’s going to prevent the neurons from wiring up in a healthy adult way,” Haidt explains.
“In terms of what they’re going to be like in 30 years, here’s what we can say with some confidence just because these are the way the trends are. They’re going to be more anxious and more fragile,” he continues.
“We never let them grow thick skin. We never let them have those toughening experiences,” he adds.
But that’s not the biggest issue these children will face.
“The biggest one I think is the destruction of the human capacity to pay attention. Young people, they find it very difficult to pay attention to anything for more than 10 or 15 minutes. They find it difficult to watch movies,” Haidt says.
“They find it difficult to read a book, and they’re reading much, much less. Can you imagine Western civilization if we lose books? If it’s all just TikTok?” he asks, noting that while attention span might be the most common, it will also affect demographics.
“The frequency of sex and marriage was already falling with the Millennials. It’s falling much faster with Gen Z. Boys raised on porn who have very poor social skills and play a lot of video games and don’t have really much practice flirting,” Haidt tells Glenn.
“And that’s just on the boy side. The girls especially are more anxious and fragile, which is also a bad sign for marriage,” he adds.
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Why Trump’s TikTok takeover won’t stop China’s digital Trojan horse
President Donald Trump and his team deserve considerable credit for the skillful way they gained control of TikTok, the video-sharing app that has become one of America’s main sources of news.
The deal could have gone down badly. Critics could have called it “proto-socialism,” especially after the government’s recent purchase of a 10% stake in Intel and its “golden share” of U.S. Steel. Moreover, the same bureaucrats who can’t run the IRS and the post office without getting egg on their faces probably aren’t equipped to run a $30 trillion annual economy either.
Every embedded Chinese system carries a national security risk. Each piece of foreign tech installed in American supply chains is another listening device, another lever of control.
However, most otherwise critical observers gave this deal a pass because the change in TikTok’s control wasn’t about market meddling; it was about national security.
Digital espionage
Despite the platform’s American majority of investors, TikTok still posed a significant national security threat. China’s tactic of using electronics for espionage purposes is well-documented. The targets of this espionage go beyond China’s enemies to friends, neighbors, and competitors alike — including the U.S. government. Technologists working on Beijing’s behalf have hacked their way through secure U.S. government systems for at least a decade, if not longer.
In that vein, TikTok’s role in Beijing’s espionage apparatus is clear. Its nearly ubiquitous presence on smartphones presents Beijing with tantalizing opportunities: a nearly endless network through which viruses can spread, or a means of obtaining private data from a global consumer base. But turning TikTok over to American management doesn’t solve the problem — not by a long shot.
The Chinese telecommunications industry is not like “Ma Bell.” It operates as an adjunct of state security forces, sometimes gathering and reporting requested data back to Beijing. The British press has reported extensively on how Huawei was doing just that: leaving secret back doors open in its equipment that the People’s Liberation Army could walk through anytime it wanted.
Spying through shopping
Huawei isn’t the only offender. A lesser-known firm called Hanshow supplies “smart electronic shelf labels” to supermarkets, a price and inventory control tool that provides Beijing with data about what Americans are buying and in real time, wherever it’s installed.
In the midst of a trade war — with America overly dependent on China for essential consumer goods and medical supplies — that information could be used against us. It’s not just marketplace ephemera; it’s a road map to identify choke points of a major competitor that could disrupt our daily patterns of life.
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That’s only one of the products Hanshow sells. It also offers AI-powered cameras, inventory robots, and smart shopping carts, which are all tied to a proprietary IT platform called All-Star. These products together provide the company and its associates in the Chinese security services with an entry point into supermarket IT networks, from point-of-sale systems to vendor portals.
Like Huawei, Hanshow is backed by investors tied to the regime and is legally bound to cooperate with the Chinese military. Its footprint is expanding, with its technology and systems used in some capacity by major customers in the American marketplace, including Instacart, Kroger, and Walmart. By some estimates, tens of millions of American shoppers have already transmitted critical financial and personal data through portals linked to Hanshow devices. By 2025, it could be more than 150 million.
The Chinese digital Cerberus
Every embedded Chinese system carries a national security risk. Each piece of foreign tech installed in American supply chains is another listening device, another lever of control. The Chinese Communist Party has a head start, and Washington cannot afford to keep looking the other way.
Trump’s TikTok deal was the right move. But the broader fight isn’t about one app. It’s about defending American data and protecting national security. The United States needs a comprehensive response to China’s technological infiltration — starting yesterday.
Trump admin reveals details of TikTok deal that would hand control to Americans
The Trump administration revealed additional details on Monday regarding the deal to save TikTok, ensuring the app's safety and security for over 170 million American users.
A senior White House official explained that the administration and China had reached an agreement to transfer TikTok's U.S. operations into a new joint venture based in the U.S., with Americans comprising the majority of the app's investors, owners, and board of directors.
'This deal means that TikTok will be majority owned by Americans in the United States.'
The U.S. government will not take equity in the joint venture. President Donald Trump would like the app's investors to be patriotic, the official remarked, adding that the administration hopes those appointed to the board will have a background in cybersecurity and national security.
As required by law, TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, will not hold more than 20% of the app's stock.
With this deal, Oracle will serve as TikTok's security provider, managing how the app is updated and how data is stored. The official noted that all American data is currently stored, and will continue to be stored, in the U.S. on Oracle's system.
China will provide a copy of the app's content recommendation algorithm to the U.S. joint venture system for inspection, operation, and monitoring.
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Trump is expected to sign an executive order later this week that will declare the terms of the agreement.
The White House official highlighted the importance of the administration's efforts to save TikTok, noting that doing so would protect jobs and enable American businesses to continue using the app for promotional purposes.
The official stated that the administration is confident that China approved the terms of the deal during a meeting last week in Madrid, Spain.
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Trump stated on Friday that he had "a great call with [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping]," adding that he had approved the deal.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Saturday that the White House was "100% confident" that it had reached a deal with China.
"Now that deal just needs to be signed, and the president's team is working with their Chinese counterparts to do just that," Leavitt told Fox News. "This deal means that TikTok will be majority owned by Americans in the United States. There will be seven seats on the board that controls the app in the United States, and six of those seats will be Americans."
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TikTok is finally coming home
After what were described as high-stakes talks in Madrid, President Trump and the Chinese have seemingly fashioned a deal that will please both parties when it comes to TikTok.
Whether users are watching Chinese factories shuck garments or consuming soft-core pornography via the platform's top star, a TikTok ban is not popular among American consumers, content creators, or activists.
'I've reached a deal with China, I'm going to speak to President Xi on Friday.'
After seemingly working for months to get a deal done that would not only limit the exposure of Americans' data to foreign adversaries but keep the app alive for the doom scrollers, Trump announced this week that his discussions with China have gone "VERY WELL."
"The big Trade Meeting in Europe between The United States of America, and China, has gone VERY WELL!" the president wrote on Truth Social Monday.
He continued, "It will be concluding shortly. A deal was also reached on a ‘certain’ company that young people in our Country very much wanted to save."
According to insiders, American companies will finally have a stake in the massive app.
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While a U.S. buyer has not been officially identified, the Wall Street Journal has reported through unnamed sources that a group of buyers could include Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Oracle is a software company, Silver Lake is a private investment firm, and Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm.
The consortium would control TikTok's stateside business with 80% ownership, and existing American TikTokers would be asked to move their viewership or content to a new app that is reportedly being tested.
Oracle will allegedly be responsible for housing user data in Texas, which is a long flight from the usual data mines of Singapore, where TikTok parent ByteDance stores some of its U.S. data.
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"We have a deal on TikTok, I've reached a deal with China, I'm going to speak to President Xi on Friday to confirm everything up," Trump told reporters as he left the White House this week, per the BBC.
As for China's side of the deal, deputy head of China's cyberspace administration, Wang Jingtao, said that part of the agreement includes "licensing the algorithm and other intellectual property rights."
"The Chinese government will, according to law, examine and approve relevant matters involving TikTok, such as the export of technology as well as the license use of intellectual property," the Chinese official added.
According to CNBC, the deal is expected to close in the next 30 to 45 days.
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Charlie Kirk sparks viral Christian revival: 'I'm going to go take his seat for him'
Stories of renewed religious fervor have flooded the internet since Charlie Kirk's assassination.
The September 10 murder of Kirk was captured on video from multiple angles for all in the world to see. Socially, Kirk's murder has invigorated a passion among supporters not seen for generations.
'For some reason, whenever he's been talking about God, I am just trying to not lose control.'
In June, Kirk appeared on "The Iced Coffee Hour" for a 90-minute conversation on fake news, corruption, and greed. Just before the podcast ended, host Jack Selby asked Kirk, "If everything completely goes away, how do you want to be remembered?"
"If I die?!" Kirk quickly clarified.
Selby specified: "If you could be associated with one thing, how would you want to be remembered?"
Kirk's answer was clear.
"I want to be remembered for courage for my faith," he said. "That that would be the most important thing. Most important thing is my faith in my life."
Posthumously, Kirk's wish is coming true.
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Kirk's grassroots activist organization, Turning Point USA, has already seen signs of a faith and freedom revival in young people across the country.
According to TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet, the organization has received more than 32,000 inquiries over the past weekend about starting new campus chapters of the organization.
Kolvet added, "To put that in perspective, TPUSA currently has 900 official college chapters and around 1,200 high school chapters, with a presence on 3,500 total. Charlie's vision to have a Club America chapter (our high school brand) in every high school in America (around 23,000) will come true much much faster than he could have ever possibly imagined."
Kirk has clearly inspired Christians both new and old to head back to church or pick up a Bible. That much is clear even in the comments section of TPUSA's pages.
"I went to church today for the first time in 15 years. Thank you, Charlie, for bringing me to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Until the day we meet, brother," a man named David Perez wrote on a post about an event honoring Kirk.
On another TPUSA post with a drawing of Kirk, a woman named Samantha Lynn said that while she had not been to church in 10 years, she would be taking her entire family to service the Sunday after Kirk's death.
"I've never felt more called to incorporate God more in our lives. I owe that all to Charlie and the legacy he leaves behind," Lynn wrote.
These comments were only the start; tens of millions of viewers have tuned in to TikTok, for example, to hear similar accounts.
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A man named Kevin Leonard spoke to over 1 million viewers on his TikTok account when he revealed he had only been to a church service twice in his entire life, but he wanted to go last Sunday to fill Kirk's seat.
"Since Charlie Kirk is unable to go this Sunday, I'm going to go take his seat for him," the man revealed.
"It was really good," Leonard said in a follow-up video. "I will continue to go back."
The content creator added that he would start donating the money he had made off the video views to a worthy cause.
Furthermore, a quarter of a million viewers watched a woman named Brittany explain that she and her husband were inspired to go to church for the first time in 20 years.
"It was the first time for our children," she explained.
Brittany added that she wanted to raise her three sons to be "as strong in their convictions as Charlie Kirk."
Thanks to Kirk's tireless work, not only are church parking lots full, but followers are expressing feelings that they have never felt before. In fact, many who were just casual viewers of Kirk's content have been exposed to more faith-based videos.
"I've seen his content before, but only him debating the college kids. I've never seen anything else," explained one young male.
"Brother, ever since he passed away three days ago, every time I see a video of him talking about his faith, bro, straight water works, like, I can't," he stated. "It's almost hard to control."
"For some reason, whenever he's been talking about God, I am just trying to not lose control.
"And I've had a few people telling me, like, maybe it's God trying to reach out to you, which sounds crazy to me because I've never believed in God, ever. I've always been like, that doesn't exist. It's not real. But it doesn't make sense. It's like, why would I get so — I'm not an emotional dude at all. So for me to get like uncontrollably emotional about this thing that I don't even believe in, it's like, well, why is that happening?"
These powerful words are everywhere online and prove that Kirk is being remembered exactly how he hoped.
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