Ep. 38 | Americans Reject The TikTok Trojan Horse and Big Brother ByteDance

In early February, The Vandenberg Coalition worked with award-winning polling company J.L. Partners to survey a representative sample of registered voters to measure TikTok’s usage amongst Americans and respondents’ familiarity with the app, TikTok’s ownership, and how Americans perceive TikTok’s impact on national security and American politics. The American public’s views are clear: on every metric, from effect on our children, to surveillance, to misinformation, election interference, and political polarization, the American public say “no” to CCP control of TikTok. James Johnson, Co-Founder of J.L. Partners, joins Flash Focus to discuss the poll results, current polling trends on tariffs, Ukraine, and Israel, and J.L. Partners’ polling approach.

You can read the toplines from the poll here and find coverage of the poll’s findings in the New York Post here.

You can also find Jonathan Haidt’s recent report, “TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale,” here.