FILE PHOTO: A TikTok logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic The House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would crack down on TikTok, in a massive defeat for the Chinese-owned app.
Rep. Mike Gallagher’s (R., Wis.) Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act represents the most aggressive action Congress has taken against the social media platform. The bill—which passed the House with 352 votes in favor, 65 against, and 1 abstention—would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest from it, lest the federal government prohibit American app stores from carrying it.
“It would force a separation,” Gallagher said last week on Fox News. “The core concern is the ownership structure. As long as TikTok is owned by ByteDance, and ByteDance is indisputably beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, the risk is that our foremost adversary controls the […]
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