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The Ridiculous TikTok ‘McCarthyism’ Smear against Tom Cotton, Explained

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) attends a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., April 28, 2021.

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A recent dustup on Capitol Hill is a Rorschach test that shows the misplaced priorities of some in media who rushed to smear Tom Cotton as racist at the expense of holding accountable a scandal-plagued tech giant.

During an exchange with the senator at a hearing yesterday, TikTok CEO Shou Chew repeatedly declined to acknowledge that China is carrying out a campaign to imprison, enslave, and forcibly sterilize ethnic-minority Uyghurs, which according to the U.S. government amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity.

Jimmy Quinn

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Jimmy Quinn

Jimmy Quinn is the former national security correspondent for National Review.

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