The video social media site TikTok, which has been described as “digital fentanyl” because of its addictive nature, is dangerous not only because of its parent company’s links to the Chinese Communist Party, but because of its ability to spread misinformation and gather data, and should be banned nationally as well as on government devices, Rep. Mike Gallagher said Sunday.

“TikTok is owned by ByteDance; ByteDance is effectively controlled by the CCP, so we have to ask whether we want the CCP to control what is on the cusp of becoming the most powerful media company in America,” the Wisconsin Republican told NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd. “That is very troubling, so I was glad to see my colleagues in the Senate pass, in unanimous fashion, a ban on TikTok on government devices. I think we should do the same in the House and expand that ban nationally.”

He said he agrees with the digital fentanyl tag, originally coined by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr because TikTok is dangerous as well as addictive.

[I think it’s smarter to focus on TikTok’s alleged Trojan-horse capabilities risk US security rather than its addictive and popular nature. “Digital fentanyl” may be a cute turn of phrase, but (a) the federal gov’t has no jurisdiction over the fun quotient of products and services, and (b) they should focus more on the gov’t’s inability to stop ACTUAL fentanyl from flooding the country. — Ed]