The measure was part of a US$95 billion foreign aid package which has now cleared Congress and heads to President Joe Biden's desk. TikTok has 170 million users in the United States alone. The bill, which could trigger the rare step o...
TikTok may be facing a crossroads sooner than later, with a divest-or-ban bill getting fast-tracked in Congress. The bill, which would require TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance either to sell the popular social media network or face a ban in the U.S., has been attached to an aid package...
The banning of TikTok on government devices could benefit rival platforms likeSnapand Meta's Facebook and Instagram that also fight for young consumers' attention. The bill includes an exception for law enforcement, national security and research purposes. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, as...
and yes, even if you want TikTok to stick around in the United States, this bill offers the only real step toward each of those goals," said Gallagher, who introduced the bill with Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat on the China committee. ...
The news comes as the House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to hold a vote next month on a bill aimed at blocking the use of TikTok in the United States over national security concerns. "ByteDance-owned TikTok has knowingly allowed the ability for the Chinese Communist Party to access ...
Despite the fail to produce evidence that ByteDance has ever exploited American users' data, the U.S. government has introduced a bipartisan bill - the RESTRICT Act, which would enable its Commerce Secretary to ban foreign technology companies, including TikTok. ...
That would leave TikTok no choice but to shut down in America, where last year it had revenue of $16bn, according to the Financial Times. So the company is pinning its hopes on an appeal to America's courts. A memo sent to staff on April 21st described the new bill, then recently ...
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: We don't collect precise GPS data One of the leading proposals targeting TikTok is the RESTRICT Act, introduced by a bipartisan group of senators led by Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and John Thune, R-S.D.. The bill, which does not yet have companion legislation...
TikTok would be banned from most U.S. government devices under a spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday.
Johnson is part of an ideologically diverse group of thinkers that have been taking a closer look at the relationship between Washington and tech. Some have advocated stronger action, for a long time: In the weeks before the TikTok bill passed the House of Representatives, Ganesh Sitaraman, a ...