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...
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 allow TikTok to ...
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 ...
Bennet is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. With this letter, he adds bipartisan pressure on the matter by asking US companies to ban the Chinese app from the stores. “It’s irresponsible for us to make it available the way we have, and I hope that Apple and Google will ...
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday that TikTok should be given more time to find an American buyer and that he would work with the Trump administration "to keep TikTok alive while protecting our national security." TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will attend Trump's inau...
The US Senate passed legislation on Tuesday requiring the popular social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the US market. "Make no mistake, this is a ban. A ban on TikTok and a ba...
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 focus is now on the US Senate, where many lawmakers said they are still evaluating the legislation. President Joe Biden has said he will sign the bill if it reaches his desk. US officials and legislators havelong expressed concernsabout TikTok’s potential natio...