For TikTokers, future is still bright

ROSLYN RYAN Richmond Suburban News

Virginia senator Mark Warner doesn’t like TikTok. What’s more, if that fact puts him at odds with the roughly 150 million Americans currently using the app on a daily basis, he doesn’t seem particularly concerned.

“As chairman of the intelligence committee, I believe TikTok poses a national security threat, and before all the potential bad action takes place, we ought to act,” Warner said in an interview with Politico recently.

Warner, of course, is no stranger to the sweeping influence of social media, though YouTube seems to be his preferred method for reaching the masses (Warner remains, to date, the only elected official in American history to achieve internet infamy vis-à-vis a tuna sandwich). So perhaps it comes as no surprise that,