USAID’s fake Cuban Twitter plot shows why we need a TikTok ban

As tomorrow’s TikTok ban deadline approaches, let us reconsider one of the more compelling arguments for its forced sale: the threat that the Chinese government may use the app to influence U.S. politics. 

Various influential voices, including the ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation, argue this does not present sufficient rationale to override free speech concerns — that the ban must require, in the ACLU’s words, “real evidence of serious harm.” But we must ask: Is it even possible...