"TikTok is a tool to promote and spread China's influence. But China conducts this propaganda on other platforms, including Twitter and Facebook... If we ban TikTok, all this will simply be revived and go through other channels, "she is quoted as saying in an article by Public Sénat.
It is noted that as an example, Loiseau, who previously served as Minister for European Affairs in the French government, cited the ban on Sputnik and RT in the EU.
"We kicked the anthill — and now ants are everywhere," she said.
Earlier, Polish MEP Beata Mazurek expressed the opinion that with the help of the Chinese social network TikTok, interested parties can allegedly "influence public opinion", including in matters related to NATO and EU support for Ukraine.
On February 25, the European Union agreed on the tenth package of anti-Russian sanctions.
The EU's new sanctions against Russia include, among other things, a ban on the broadcast and distribution of RT Arabic and Sputnik Arabic.