Browsing: ByteDance

The heads of a bipartisan group concentrating on China have written a letter requesting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to look into whether TikTok has broken laws protecting children in its attempts to prevent the United States from prohibiting the app. The letter, obtained by The Hill and initially reported by NBC News, is…

The US Senate on Tuesday approved legislation requiring the wildly popular social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American…

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said he received a voicemail in which someone threatened to “find” and “shoot” him over a potential TikTok ban Wednesday. “This is a voicemail my office received last night,” Tillis said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “TikTok’s misinformation campaign is pushing people to call their…

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stated in an interview on Wednesday that users would gain from the controversial bill aiming to make TikTok’s Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, sell the popular app or potentially face a ban in the United States. After a classified intelligence briefing on TikTok, Cruz argued for blocking the Chinese Communist…

Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, is condemning former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for his effort to purchase the social media platform TikTok.  “I don’t see how America will be any more secure if the next owner of TikTok is a MAGA Trump crony backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund,”…

The leader of TikTok expressed dissatisfaction after the House approved a bill on Wednesday that could prohibit the well-liked social media app and urged users to contact their U.S. senators and urge them to vote against the bill, which now goes to the upper chamber. In a video shared on TikTok, CEO Shou Chew…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced at the House GOP retreat in West Virginia on Wednesday that the House will 'apply every amount of pressure' on the Senate to approve a bill that could ban TikTok, shortly after the House passed the legislation with overwhelming bipartisan support.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance should be forced to sell the app but argued that the potential for a ban under current legislation is too “extreme.” Khanna voted against a bill Wednesday that would require ByteDance to divest from TikTok within 165 days or face a ban in U.S. app…

China cautioned on Wednesday that a potential TikTok ban would have negative repercussions for the United States. The House is expected to vote Wednesday morning on a bill that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to divest the video-based social media app or face a ban in the U.S.

“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary suggested that he will buy social media platform TikTok if a proposed ban goes ahead Friday. “Not going to get banned, ‘cause I’m gonna buy it,” O’Leary said on Fox News’ “The Story” in an interview with anchor Gillian Turner. “Somebody’s going to buy it, it won’t be Meta and…