TMTPost -- With a critical procedural vote, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday moved closer to pass a bill that could ban TikTok in the country. Credit:Xinhua News Agency The Senate voted to advance the legislation to provide the US$95 billion aid package to Ukriane and threaten Chinese tech gia...
A bill that would force the sale of TikTok from its Chinese owners or see it banned in the United States will move cautiously in the US Senate, key lawmakers said, after it sailed through the House.
The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee unanimously passed a bill Wednesday that would ban federal employees from using the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on government phones. It will now go to the Senate floor. "TikTok is owned by a Chinese company that includes Chi...
On Jan. 30, a bipartisan group of Senators introduceda newbillthat would criminalize the act of spreading nonconsensual and sexualized “digital forgeries” created using artificial intelligence. Digital forgeries are defined as "a visual depiction created through the use of software, machine learnin...
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(TMTPOST) -- TikTok users across the United States would soon find that the popular Chinese-owned short video sharing platform being controlled by a U.S. owner or banned, although it may take up to a year. On Tuesday night, the U.S Senate passed the bill that requires the social media...
If the bill were to be passed in the Senate, President Joe Biden has already said he will sign it into law. While the bill does not call for an outright ban of TikTok, it does call for the company to separate from its parent company ByteDance. U.S. officials claim ByteDance is behold...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate passed a measure Friday to ban TikTok from state government-issued devices, reflecting bipartisan concerns about the Chinese-owned social media app. The bill easily cleared the Senate on a 31-0 vote...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshearrecently took executive action to prohibit the use of TikTok on executive branch devices. The bill would place the ban into state law. TikTok has become a globally popular domain, known as a platform of choice for catchy videos. But there’s long been bipartisan con...
The bill was introduced by a dozen senators, including Republicans John Thune and Mitt Romney. While it does not mention TikTok by name, the administration’s struggle to reach a solution on how to manage the viral video-sharing app, which the intelligence community views as a threat, was a...