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Apr 20 2024
News
Full List of House Members Who Voted Against TikTok Ban
The House passed legislation on Saturday that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the United States, however, some members voted against the bill. The vote in the lower chamber comes amid concerns over the popular social media platform being run by Chinese company ByteDance. Lawmakers in both state and federal governments have been pushing to get rid of the platform due to national security
NewsweekApr 20 2024
News
House passes Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan aid, potential TikTok ban
On Saturday, the House passed a series of bills to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, along with a package that included forcing the Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok.
After a morning of debate on the House floor, the four bills will be wrapped into a single package and sent to the Senate for approval. After that, it will be sent to President Joe Biden to be signed into
CNBCApr 23 2024
News
Klobuchar, Smith to consider TikTok ban as part of massive foreign aid package
WASHINGTON — Jen Shaffer, whose genealogy business took off after she used TikTok to market her services, is among millions of Americans concerned about the future of the popular social media platform as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on legislation that could ban the app. Shaffer, who lives in New Brighton, traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to try to persuade Sens. Amy Klobuchar and
MinnPostApr 23 2024
News
This New Orleans restaurant has American's best pasta, TikTok star says
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AxiosMar 14 2024
News
TikTok coffee talk
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — A possible ban on the social media platform TikTok is stirring strong opinions among people in Sioux Falls. On Wednesday, the U.S. House overwhelmingly voted in favor of the ban out of a concern that the Chinese government could gain data access among its users in the United States. Customers at a downtown coffee shop, including a South Dakota legislator, have mixed
KelolandApr 21 2024
News
TikTok says bill to force its sale would ‘trample’ free speech
Bill targeting Chinese-owned app goes to the US Senate after passing the House in bipartisan vote. TikTok has slammed a bill that would ban the video-sharing app in the United States if it does not divest from its Chinese owner, accusing lawmakers of trampling on citizens’ right to free speech. “It is unfortunate that the House of Representatives is using the cover of important foreign and
Al JazeeraApr 18 2024
News
NYU administrator punched in unprovoked attack like those reported on TikTok: police
A stranger sucker-punched a New York University administrator at Washington Square Park as random, unprovoked assaults, some of which have been reported by TikTok users, continue south of 42nd St., officials said. The 27-year-old administrator was walking along Washington Square North near Fifth Ave. in Greenwich Village around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday when the stranger stormed up to her and
New York Daily NewsApr 21 2024
News
TikTok Braces for US Divest-or-Ban Law — And a Fresh Legal Fight
After years of working to assure the US government that its popular social media app isn’t a threat to national security, TikTok’s loss in that fight now seems almost inevitable. The US House of Representatives on Saturday put legislation requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance Ltd., to divest its ownership stake in the app on a fast track to become law, tying it to a crucial aid
BloombergMar 12 2024
Opinion
Tackling the TikTok Threat
The House on Wednesday is expected to vote on a bill that would give popular social-media app TikTok an ultimatum: Break up with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or break up with the U.S. It didn’t need to come to this, but Beijing and TikTok’s Chinese-owner ByteDance left Washington with no choice.
Congress has spent years debating how to mitigate the national-security risks of
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)