The bill, introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), matches Republican-led efforts at the state level to regulate the popular, Chinese-owned video-sharing app.
, of posing a threat to U.S. national security through its links to Beijing, a connection they argue could facilitate Chinese government access to U.S. users’ data.in September, TikTok Chief Operating Officer Vanessa Pappas said the company’s Chinese employees were subject to strict access controls over U.S. data and that “under no circumstances” would data be given to China.
“TikTok is a Trojan Horse for the Chinese Communist Party. It’s a major security risk to the United States, and until it is forced to sever ties with China completely, it has no place on government devices,” Hawley said in his Thursday statement. “States across the U.S. are banning TikTok on government devices. It’s time for Joe Biden and the Democrats to help do the same.”
Democrats are set to maintain slim control of the Senate in the next Congress, with a narrow majority in the chamber that last week withstood anIn a statement shared with The Washington Post, a spokesperson for TikTok said Thursday: “Once again, Sen. Hawley has moved forward with legislation to ban TikTok on government devices, a proposal which does nothing to advance U.S. national security interests.
Wednesday’s bill comes amid other far-reaching attempts by TikTok’s critics in Congress to constrain the app — which include aIn addition to claiming that the app allows Beijing to surveil TikTok’s U.S.-based users, Rubio,, accused the app’s owners of trying to influence what Americans see and believe. “This isn’t about creative videos — this is about an app that is collecting data on tens of millions of American children and adults every day.
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