White House on TikTok CEO Testimony: US Has ‘Legitimate Concerns’ About App on National Security

National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, on March 22, 2023. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The United States has “legitimate national security concerns” over TikTok, said National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby.

“The president has been very clear. We have legitimate national security concerns over this particular application, and we’re banning it,” Kirby told The Epoch Times’s sister media NTD. “It is banned on government devices, that’s not going to change.”