President-elect Donald Trump’s call to “save TikTok” means he’ll force a true divestiture of it from ByteDance, its current ownership, not to disregard the law Congress passed to ban the social media site, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday.

“I think we will enforce the law,” Johnson, R-La., told NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” adding that members of Congress are not concerned about the video platform itself. 

“It’s the Chinese Communist Party and their manipulation of the algorithms,” Johnson said. “They have been flooding the minds of American children with terrible messages, glorifying violence and antisemitism and even suicide and eating disorders and they’re mining the data of American citizens,” he added. “It’s a very dangerous thing. The Chinese Communist Party is not our friend, and we have to make sure this changes hands.”

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