US piles pressure on TikTok ahead of vote on Chinese media firm

TikTok told the Irish Examiner last month that Ireland remains 'a hugely important base' for the social media company

Ireland has a particular stake in the US hardening its stance on TikTok because the media giant has a large global office based in Dublin.  

China could use social media app TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections, the US director of national intelligence Avril Haines has told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing. 

Asked by Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi if China's ruling Communist Party (CCP) would use TikTok to influence the elections, Ms Haines said: "We cannot rule out that the CCP would use it."