TikTok has long denied it could be used by the Chinese government to spy on Americans. In a statement after the House vote, a spokesperson for the company said the "process was secret and the bill was jammed th
The new version of the bill and the previous one are not identical. The current bill lays out an extended deadline for TikTok to find a new owner, before mandating U.S. app stores to boot the app. Instead of six months, the developer would have nine months. ...
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of the short-video app, or face a ban, in the greatest ...
TikTok vowed to fight against the bill that could lead to a complete shutdown in the U.S. “We will not stop fighting and advocating for you. We will continue to do all we can, including exercising our legal rights, to protect this amazing platform that we have built with you,” TikTo...
The decision by House Republicans to include TikTok as part of alarger foreign aid package, a priority for President Joe Biden with broad congressional support for Ukraine and Israel, fast-tracked the ban after an earlier version had stalled in the Senate. A standalone bill with a six-month ...
The bill is now headed to the Senate where, if it passes, it will hit President Joe Biden's desk. Biden, whose campaign is on TikTok, said he would sign the bill into law. That would give TikTok five months to either sell TikTok or see it banned in the U.S. This isn't the ...
The modified bill, passed by a 360-58 vote, now goes to the Senate where it could be taken up for a vote in the next days. U.S. President Joe Biden has previously said he would sign the legislation on TikTok into law. "This bill is important, we welcome this step," White House ...
platform that we have built with you,” TikTok CEO Chew said in a video posted Wednesday. The chief executive said TikTok has invested to keep user data safe and the platform free from outside manipulation, and the bill would give more power to a handful of other social companies if ...
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The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Wednesday that would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner or get banned from the United States.