TikTok would be banned from most U.S. government devices under a spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday.
TikTok is under scrutiny over national security, privacy, and surveillance concerns. Learn about the federal legislation being considered and what it means for the future of TikTok
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was pushing to include the TikTok provision in the big year-end bill, her office said. Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican who authored a version of the TikTok bill that passed the Senate last week, called the government device ban "the first maj...
TikTok complained after Saturday's House vote, saying it was "unfortunate" that lawmakers sought to "jam through a ban bill that would trample the free speech rights of 170 million Americans, devastate 7 million businesses, and shutter a pla...
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin claimed the bill that could ban TikTok has “sheer robbers’ logic to try every means to snatch from others all the good things that they have”. The bill recently adopted by the House of Representatives puts the U.S. on the opposite ...
The US House of Representatives is gearing up for a vote on a bill that would force ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, to sell the app or face a ban in the country. This move gained traction on Thursday, with...
TikTokis now at a crossroads: Split up and stay in the U.S., or face a possible ban. Here's where the company could go from here and what that means for TikTok users. What are TikTok's options? Prior to the TikTok chief exective's testimony this week, ByteDance had planned to rema...
Is TikTok going to be banned? It's too soon to say. The bill would still need to pass both the House and the Senate, and be signed into law by the president. If it does become law, ByteDance would have six months to sell before any ban would take effect. ...
TIKTOK ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK —Reps. Seth Moulton and Jake Auchincloss say they aren’t trying to ban TikTok. They just want it out from under Chinese control — for quite a few reasons. Moulton and Auchincloss areco-sponsoring a billthat would force Beijing-based ByteDance to...
As Washington stares down the dizzying obstacle course, there’s an increasing sense that it’s already missed its best chance to ban TikTok. “Time is not on our side,” said Rep.Mike Gallagher(R-Wis.), chair of the new House Select Committee on China. “Every day that passes is a ...