TikTok customers flood congressional workplace telephone strains with calls opposing a TikTok ban after the app surfaced prompts to some customers, encouraging them to name their representatives. The identical day, a House committee advances a invoice focusing on TikTok and different apps accused of being managed by international adversaries, together with China.
The invoice would require that TikTok both be divested from ByteDance or face a ban within the United States.
President Biden tells reporters he would approve the TikTok invoice if Congress passes it. “If they go it, I’ll signal it,” he mentioned. His stance seems to distinction with that of Trump. Trump, who had beforehand supported a TikTok ban, posts on-line the evening earlier than that “in the event you do away with TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their enterprise,” referring to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The House is about to maintain a flooring vote on a invoice requiring that sure firms discovered to be managed by a international adversary be divested inside 180 days, singling out ByteDance and TikTok. If the invoice turns into regulation and ByteDance doesn’t divest, U.S.-based app shops and hosting providers could be prohibited from offering the app to the general public, successfully main to a ban within the nation.
Editing by Karly Domb Sadof and Alexis Sobel Fitts.
