The Chinese Foreign Ministry refused to answer questions Wednesday about a U.S. ultimatum ordering China-based ByteDance to sell the American arm of its wildly popular app TikTok or face a ban in the U.S., a contrast with the loud approach Beijing and the app’s supporters have previously pushed. The crackdown on TikTok’s owner passed Congress […]
No, TikTok will not suddenly disappear from your phone. Nor will you go to jail if you continue using it after it is banned. After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its […]
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers that’s expected to face legal challenges and disrupt the lives of content creators who rely on the short-form video app for income. The […]
It hasn’t happened yet but the TikTok ban seems imminent. The Senate advanced a major foreign aid package that includes a provision that could lead to a ban on TikTok on Tuesday, clearing a key procedural hurdle that brings the package one step closer to final passage after a monthslong back and forth with the […]
A mother from Arkansas is suing TikTok after her son committed suicide, egged on, she says, by the content the platform’s algorithms steadily fed him. Jennie DeSerio’s 16-year-old son Mason Edens died by suicide in November 2022 after a bad breakup, according to NBC News. Months after the boy’s death, DeSerio began to look through […]
Speaker-of-the-moment Mike Johnson just proved again why Americans have taken to referring to our nation’s capital as the swamp by pulling a legislative fast one and actually pleasing many democrats as well as President Biden. In a rare Saturday session, the House approved Johnson and Biden’s pet $95 billion […]
WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation Saturday that would ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media platform’s China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year, but don’t expect the app to go away anytime soon. The decision by House Republicans to include TikTok as part of a larger foreign aid […]
The Senate has been known as “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” supposedly because they take forever to get anything done. In March, the House passed a bill that would force the sale of the Chinese social media app TikTok to an American company within six months of the president’s signature or face a total […]
Two things are happening and they are very much connected. Thing #1 is that the TikTok bill which would force ByteDance to sell is being fast-tracked and now has a real chance of making it through the Senate. With the House of Representatives set to pass the TikTok bill as part of a major aid […]
Efforts to restrict TikTok won a new ally on Capitol Hill in the Senate Commerce Committee’s chairwoman, who complained about House legislation to restrict the popular app just last week. Sen. Maria Cantwell‘s new view diminishes a major roadblock in the way of the House’s effort to force the app’s China-based owner, ByteDance, to sell […]
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