after certain legislation was passed by Congress in the last few days. On Wednesday, President Biden signed the bill that forces the popular video sharing app to be sold or be banned in U.S. But, don’t expect it to go away anytime soon. Why does the US want to ban TikTok?
TikTokhas been under fire in the U.S. for years while raising questions about data access laws. Those concerns led the U.S. House of Representatives to pass legislation on March 13, 2024, requiring Chinese company ByteDance to sell off the social media app within six months or be banned f...
TikTokaverted a ban once beforeunder the Trump administration. But this time around, the bill is on far more solid footing, and TikTok is arguing that divesting its US business is not possible “commercially, technologically, or legally.” So we walked through each of those arguments one by o...
including President Donald Trump’s 2020 push to ban the app via an executive order. Courts blocked that attempt. Last year, as some state and federal agencies barred employee use of TikTok, several lawmakers introduced bills that would have effectively banned TikTok,...
The Montana bill isn't the first blanket ban the company has faced. In 2020, then-President Donald Trump issued executive orders that banned the use of TikTok and the Chinese messaging platform WeChat. Those efforts were nixed by the courts and shelved by the Biden administration. ...
The bill, known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, would require ByteDance to sell TikTok within six months or be banned from U.S. app stores and web-hosting services if it does not cut ties. ...
On March 13, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to force Chinese company ByteDance to sell off its video-sharing app TikTok within 180 days. Otherwise, the app would be banned in the country. This is an intolerable act by a nation that always preaches "free will, free sp...
TikTok users could soon find that the popular social media service is either under new ownership or, although it wouldn't happen immediately, outright banned in the U.S. The Senate late Tuesday passed a broad legislative package thatdelivers $95 billion in foreign aidto Ukraine, Israel and oth...
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), led by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, requested ByteDance to sell its stake in TikTok in March 2023, or face the possibility of the application being banned. However, no action has been taken by the U.S. administrati...
The US House in March overwhelmingly approved a bill to force ByteDance to divest it within 180 days, or else app stores would be banned from distributing the video-sharing platform. The Senate has been slower to consider the measure...