An outright U.S. TikTok ban creeps foward.
The possibility of a national TikTok ban continues to grow as U.S. Senators push a bill that will help “ban or prohibit” foreign technology such as the Chinese-owned video app.
Democrat Senator and chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Mark Warner and Republican Senator John Thune will introduce a broad bipartisan bill this week that will outline an approach to banning or prohibiting foreign technology that poses a national security threat., Warner confirms that TikTok would be “one of the potentials” for review under the bill.
“You got 100 million Americans on TikTok 90 minutes a day,” Warner says. “They are taking data from Americans. They are not keeping it safe.” The senator from Virginia also mentions his concerns about the circulation of ideological content or propaganda on TikTok, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance. Warner’s and Thune’s bill already has early bipartisan support.Warner’s legislation comes amid growing safety and security concerns around TikTok, which has one billion users and is the sixth most-used social media platform in the world.
Last week, Republican committee chair Michael McCaul described TikTok as a “spy balloon in your phone”– in reference to theOn Wednesday, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to advance
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