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 through for one reason: it's a ban." The spokesperson said TikTik is "hopeful...
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 ...
skip to main content vittoria elliott politics mar 13, 2024 11:34 am the house passed the bill that could ban tiktok—and it wasn’t close if the senate passes the bill, president joe biden has said he will sign it. democrats raja krishnamoorthi of illinois (left) and mike gallager of...
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. 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 Press Se...
the leading Democrat. The House Energy and Commerce Committee pushed the bill to a full House vote in a unanimous bipartisan vote--50-0 on March 7, two days later the bill introduced. CNN commented the bill is the most aggressive legislation targeting TikTok to come out of a congressional ...
The vote — which passed at 360-58 — came after House Republicans bundled the bill with another measure pledging aid to Israel and Ukraine. The matter now goes to the Senate. This is thesecond timein recent weeks thatTikTokis seeing its fate hang in the balance. In March, the House app...
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 ...
TikTok on Sunday (21 April) repeated its free-speech concerns about a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the US if Chinese owner ByteDance did not sell its stake within a year.
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.
TikTok launches opposition TikTok is mounting a push against the bill, including trying to mobilize its user base. The company has served some users with full-screen pop-ups in the app warning that the bill “strips 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression.” ...