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Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill (www.bbc.com)

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[-] isles@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Later Thursday, Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said that the balloon not only did not transmit data back to China -- it never collected any.

"We're aware that it had intelligence collection capabilities, but it was our -- and it has been our -- assessment now that it did not collect while it was transiting the United States," Ryder said

[-] vinyl@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Link leads to "page unavailable"

[-] isles@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks, I had stripped out too much link metadata, it's working now.

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