Browsing: TikTok

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…

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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,”…

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said the TikTok bill passed by the House last week isn't effectively addressing the problem. Khanna, who voted against the bill, argued on ABC’s “This Week” that while the two national security issues cited in the bill are “legitimate,” the legislation still does not address them. He said the two issues at…

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) signaled he was open to supporting the House-passed bill that could ban TikTok but that it still must undergo the Senate process and might see some changes included. “I’m certainly sympathetic to it. Let’s see how it goes through the Senate process. But yes, I think we…

Beijing, China – The US ambassador to China said Friday that Beijing’s position on a potential TikTok ban in the United States was “supremely ironic” given the ruling Communist Party's censorship…

Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who served under ex-President Donald Trump, is assembling an investor group to acquire TikTok from ByteDance.

Could it be banned in the UK too?

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…