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Congress could pass legislation to ban TikTok in the U.S. The app is fighting back.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., who was among the authors of the bipartisan bill, said other House members told him that their offices were flooded by calls from constituents issuing their support for TikTok.
The legislation comes roughly a year after TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress about the app and its connection to the Chinese government.
TikTok has maintained that data from its U.S. users is stored in the United States and that the Chinese government has not access or control of the app.
The bill, which is being called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, would give the president power, through entities like the FBI and other intelligence agencies, to identify certain social media apps as national security threats if they are deemed under the control of foreign adversaries, like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
In response to the bill, a TikTok spokesperson said “the government is attempting to strip 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression.
Bowman, who has 234,000 followers on TikTok, later told NBC News that he wants to see “comprehensive social media reform” and that he’s probably opposed to the legislation at this point.
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