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“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
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On the recordSeptember 11, 2023
The way they have gone about--and we've seen a lot of it on TikTok. They have these influence campaigns that they are running to influence certain thought processes with the American people.
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee
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Blackburn discusses China's influence campaigns via TikTok.

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