New Buyers for TikTok Could Send Platform Spies Packing
With President Trump confirming a group of wealthy U.S. investors is prepared to buy TikTok from ByteDance, the Falun Dafa Information Center can provide expert insight on why this acquisition is far more than just a tech headline—it’s a crucial opportunity to wrest control of one of the world’s most influential platforms from the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and return it to a system that values privacy, free speech, and human dignity.
Representatives from the Falun Dafa Information Center, including Digital Outreach Director Ben Maloney, are available to speak to the deeper implications of the TikTok sale. They can contextualize this moment within China’s broader ambition to control global discourse through digital platforms—something the CCP has pursued relentlessly both inside and outside its borders. TikTok, under Chinese ownership, has been an engine for censorship, data harvesting, and subtle narrative manipulation.
Under American ownership, TikTok could finally be restructured to reflect the democratic values its massive U.S. user base expects—especially transparency, algorithmic fairness, and protection from state-directed influence. The Center’s spokespeople can break down why this matters not just for national security, but for cultural and digital sovereignty.
From their vantage point monitoring CCP repression for over two decades—including the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners—the Falun Dafa Information Center understands how the Chinese regime blends surveillance, propaganda, and soft power to erode freedoms globally. ByteDance’s grip on TikTok is part of that equation, and this potential buyout is a unique opportunity to disrupt it.
They can also address:
- How Chinese state-linked tech firms extend authoritarian influence abroad
- Why the CCP fears uncensored platforms—especially those reaching youth
- What Americans gain when critical digital infrastructure is repatriated
- Why this deal could serve as a model for pushing back against China’s digital dominance
Falun Dafa Information Center representatives are available immediately for interviews, op-eds, or background briefings.
Schedule an interview with Falun Dafa spokesman today!!
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Trump says he has group of ‘very wealthy people’ ready to buy TikTok
OPTIONAL Q&A:
- Why is removing TikTok from Chinese control so critical to American digital sovereignty?
- How has the Chinese Communist Party used TikTok as a tool of influence beyond its borders?
- What risks do ByteDance’s ties to the CCP pose to American users?
- How could U.S. ownership of TikTok improve transparency and content moderation?
- What lessons has the Falun Dafa Information Center learned from years of monitoring Chinese digital repression?
- How does TikTok fit into China’s broader strategy of exporting authoritarian influence?
- Why is this potential buyout more than just a business deal—what’s at stake culturally and politically?
- Could this deal set a precedent for reclaiming other Chinese-linked digital platforms?
ABOUT BEN MALONEY…
Ben brings a human-centric approach to the issue of Chinese transnational repression in America. Ben is the Digital Outreach Director for the Falun Dafa Information Center and has worked for Fortune 500 companies in various technology roles. With his deep background in technology, he can speak authoritatively on how the Chinese Communist Party weaponizes surveillance, AI, and digital tools to target both Chinese and Americans. A practitioner of Falun Gong meditation who has 20 years of expertise in human rights work, he can help Americans understand how the CCP exports persecution to the U.S., influences our thinking and social media feeds, and endangers our freedoms.
Sample interviews:
NTD Evening News:
China in Focus to highlight World Falun Dafa Day,
ABOUT MARK YANG
Based in Washington D.C., Mark Yang is part of the Falun Dafa Information Center’s program for advocacy and research and regularly speaks at forums and press conferences on Capitol Hill. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in Global Commerce and Policy from George Mason University. Passionate about human rights, he brings 14 years of experience working on issues of human rights in China and additionally serves as a China analyst for a New York-based consultancy.
ABOUT LEESHAI LEMISH…
Leeshai Lemish has been with Shen Yun for 18 years. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chinese history and language from Pomona College, California, and his master’s in international relations from the London School of Economics. He has spent extended periods studying, working, and conducting research throughout East Asia, and has authored articles on Chinese current affairs in both English and Chinese. He joined Shen Yun Performing Arts as an MC when the company was founded in 2006 and has since emceed close to two thousand performances with the company, taking the stage with Shen Yun at prestigious theaters such as Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, the London Coliseum, Tokyo Opera City, and many others worldwide. In addition to his performance role, he has tracked and documented on his website over 100 cases of the Chinese Communist Party and its agents trying to sabotage Shen Yun internationally. He has testified on transnational repression in front of Congress, has been a featured guest on television and radio shows around the world, and is the host of the podcast Shen Yun Voices.
ABOUT LEVI BROWDE…
Levi Browde serves as the Executive Director with the New York-based Falun Dafa Information Center – an organization dedicated to ending the human rights abuses against people who practice Falun Gong in China.
A career software entrepreneur, Levi’s life changed dramatically in 1999 when his best friend came to the office one morning and announced the Chinese Communist Party had taken away his mother in Beijing to be tortured and “brainwashed.” This marked the beginning of his volunteer work to defend human rights in China. Two years later, Levi himself was detained in a Chinese jail outside Beijing for secretly meeting with Western reporters and protesting on Tiananmen Square.
Over the past 20 years, Browde has been interviewed and quoted by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, CNN, the Associated Press, TIME Magazine, BBC, AFP, and other media outlets. He has spoken about Falun Gong and human rights in China at briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, at the United Nations human rights sessions in Geneva, Switzerland.
Browde studied East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University and is an avid supporter of traditional Chinese culture. He founded several software start-ups, and lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
Samples of Levi on camera:
https://tv.faluninfo.net/unmasking-chinas-gestapo-610-office/
https://tv.faluninfo.net/levi-browde-exposes-the-new-york-times-distorted-coverage-of-human-rights/
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