What happened
The house on Wednesday overwhelmed overwhelmingly a bill to prohibition For national security reasons, if not its Chinese owners, bythage, sell the app to a non-Chinese company.
Who said what
TikTok is a “valuable propaganda tool” Chinese Communist Party Can Exploit, Rep Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) Said, and its I-app-Push warning because lobby laws against the bill is “just a small taste of how CCP weapons applications it controls” to “promote its agenda.” “It’s a ban based on zero evidence,” said Tiktok Talesman Jodi Seth.
Tiktok’s security threat has “much less to do with who owns it” than “writing the code and algorithms”, the opaque prey-owned “magical sauce” that makes “Tiktok to tick”, ” New York Times said. China will not sell its algorithm.
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What now?
The bill is facing an uncertain fate in the Senate. President Joe Biden has said he would sign the legislation. But former President Donald Trump, as tried to ban tictoc When it was in the office, reverse course last week and opposed some ban after pressure from a Republican megadonor with a share of $ 15 billion in Bythadance.
