TikTok hires consulting agency with ties to Biden

The extensively in style social media app TikTok has employed its personal consulting agency, SKDK, because it comes underneath new scrutiny from lawmakers frightened it’s a safety risk, in response to a report in Politico.

SKDK was employed to offer its assist to TikTok as lawmakers push bipartisan laws that would ban or prohibit the app.

The agency’s ties to the Biden administration are notable. Anita Dunn, one of many agency’s founders, is a senior adviser to President Biden. A number of different officers within the administration have ties to SKDK.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese language firm. Lawmakers and different officers across the nation have expressed concern that the Chinese language authorities may use TikTok to garner details about Americans.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee this week that he considers TikTok to be a safety risk.

Requested by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) if the U.S. ought to chorus from banning the app as a result of it’s in style amongst customers underneath the age of 35 regardless of the considerations raised by lawmakers, Wray stated, “Not from my perspective.”

TikTok’s hiring of the agency got here in the previous few months, Politico reported.

The laws within the Senate would give the federal authorities the power to limit entry to any expertise from China and different nations.