Israel-Hamas war: Rubio claims TikTok spreads war propaganda favoring Chinese

WASHINGTON – Sen. Marco Rubio belongs to a group of lawmakers who are calling for a ban on TikTok over alleged propaganda about the Israel-Hamas war.

Last year, Rubio introduced legislation to ban TikTok from operating in the United States. Most recently, Rubio told Sean Hannity that TikTok’s “misinformation and indoctrination” was responsible for college students’ opinions after the Oct. 7 attack.

“The Marxist bias on TikTok reflects more than left-wing thought among millennials and Generation Z. It reflects the app’s subservience to the world’s most powerful Marxist regime: the Chinese Communist Party,” Rubio wrote in an opinion piece published by The Washington Examiner on Friday.

Rubio also wrote that claims that TikTok intentionally fosters support for Hamas are primarily anecdotal at this time because its algorithms and data are a secret.