Angry Over GenZ Vote, Fox Says Tik Tok As Deadly As Opioids
Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher told Fox News's Laura Ingraham that using Tik Tok is just like them overdosing on Oxycontin.
"It's digital fentanyl in the sense it's highly addictive, and therefore deadly, for all the reasons you laid out in your monologue," Gallagher said. "Our youth are at risk of increased isolation, suicide, depression, anxiety - those numbers are through the roof."
Gallagher and Fox News must believe that equating 'fentanyl' with TikTok will spur their viewers' outrage.
The big bad in all of this is China. Gallagher claimed the Chinese government can even censor the news received on the platform.
"And increasingly people use TikTok as a news source."
Unlike the right-wing propaganda they receive watching Fox News.
Then the Wisconsin lawmaker went QAnon and claimed "the swamp" is at play in all of this.
"The final thing that is really disgusting, Laura, is they're weaponizing the swamp against us," he said. "TikTok is hiring an army of former members of Congress, Senators, Democrats, Republicans, staffers, spending $7 million last year in order to lobby on their behalf."
Who is the swamp? Former elected representatives of this country. Which makes Rep. Gallagher a primary target too.
"This is a danger to our kids, a national security threat, and ultimately, we don't want to Chinese communist party to control the most popular media company in America."