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Will TikTok Be Banned? US Efforts Gather Steam
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1:52Now PlayingLawmakers want to ban TikTok in the US, but doing so risks upsetting young voters who love the app. Alex Webb, Alex Barinka and Daniel Flatley report.
The growing clamor in Congress to completely ban TikTok in the US raises the stakes for the Biden administration, which is in the late stages of reviewing the security risks of the popular social media app.
Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley on Wednesday introduced legislation to prohibit TikTok, owned by a Chinese company, from all devices nationwide.
Meanwhile, Representatives Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who now wields clout over how to counter Chinese influence in the US, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat from Illinois, said they plan to team up with Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, for a similar measure.
TikTok “opens the door for the Chinese Communist Party to access Americans’ personal information, keystrokes, and location through aggressive data harvesting,” Hawley said.
The concern is that TikTok and its parent, ByteDance Ltd., could share information on US users with Chinese authorities. The scrutiny is part of a broader bipartisan focus on ways the US can counter China’s rising economic and strategic influence.
Congress late last year banned TikTok from government phones, and more than half of US states have enacted similar prohibitions. Still, it’s not yet clear how far the proposals for a nationwide ban on TikTok will go.
Some Democratic lawmakers so far have held back from calling for an all-out ban while awaiting a signal from the Biden administration, which is addressing the topic through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
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