Congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson vows to fight ‘dictators’ controlling TikTok

Caroleene Dobson, a Montgomery real estate attorney and Republican candidate for Alabama’s Second Congressional District seat, said she will join the growing number of conservatives in Washington who are sponsoring legislation to curb the runaway control of social media by the Chinese government and extremist liberal interests. TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., has supercharged its popularity, particularly among young Americans. But its growth has raised generational, bipartisan concern over the misuse of user data and the app’s susceptibility to Chinese government influence, amon