The Chinese firm ByteDance, and its parent corporation have spent over $13 million lobbying members of Congress.
The ownership of TikTok by a Chinese business is still a focus of legislative campaigns, and some even call prohibit TikTok from operating in the United States, despite this investment.
TikTok has launched Project Texas in an effort to allay government worries around the possibility of information collection by the Chinese government.
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