The US Senate voted Thursday to bar TikTok from being downloaded onto US government employees' telephones, intensifying US scrutiny of the popular Chinese-owned video app.
WASHINGTON,- The U.S. Senate voted by a wide margin late Tuesday in favor of legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States if its owner, the Chinese tech firm ByteDance, fails to divest the popular short video app over the next nine months to a year. ...
TikTok has 170 million users in the United States alone. The bill, which could trigger the rare step of barring a company from operating in the US market, passed the Senate by a 79-18 vote three days after it cleared the House of Re...
In this Jan. 31, 2024, file photo, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.The Washington Post via Getty Images, FILE Trump has vowed to reverse the ban Trump is considering what executive actions he has available to al...
Clock ticks down on new US TikTok ban deadline As the April 4 deadline nears for TikTok to sell or face a ban in the U.S., the battle to buy the massively popular app is intensifying. April 3, 2025 Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live Senate meets for legislative business...
1 p.m. EST, January 19Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, warned that “any company that hosts, distributes, services or otherwise facilitates communist-controlled TikTok could face hundreds of billions of dollars ...
When would a TikTok ban happen if the bill becomes law? The bill still has some way to go before it becomes law. But if it passes the Senate and is signed into law by President Biden, ByteDance would have six months to sell TikTok before any ban would take effect. ...
How could Trump prevent the TikTok ban? In his first term, President-elect Trump supported plans to ban TikTok, but he has since changed his stance. During the 2024 presidential campaign, he promised to “save TikTok” in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, as he encoura...
Trump, mindful of TikTok’s popularity, and his own 14.7 million followers on the app, finds himself on the opposite side of the argument from prominent Senate Republicans who fault TikTok’s Chinese owner for not finding a buyer before now. Trump said in a Truth Social post shortly before ...
with the US House of Representatives approving it with a bipartisan vote of 360-58. House Republican leadership attached the TikTok billto fundingfor Ukrainian military equipment and Israeli missile defense, putting the pressure on Senate lawmakers to consider the whole package in a single up-or-do...