TikTok has lost a major battle in Washington and its ban in the United States looks imminent, although the government will have to tread carefully before removing the popular platform, which has a presence of 150 million Americans, according to AFP.
His boss, Shou Chu, faced a barrage of attacks from a powerful parliamentary committee on Thursday without being able to respond.
Elected officials, unusually aligned on both the right and the left, have accused TikTok, a subsidiary of China’s ByteDance, of being a tool for Beijing to spy on and manipulate Americans.
According to Dan Yves of Webdush Securities, the hearing has led to a “disaster” for the platform, which expects to see increased “calls from lawmakers and the White House to ban TikTok in the United States unless ByteDance divests from the company.”
If ByteDance doesn’t find an American buyer in “three to six months,” he believes “TikTok will probably be banned by the end of the year.”
White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said late Thursday that “negotiations are ongoing with ByteDance” and that the administration “strongly supports” the RESTRICT Act, one of the bills aimed at banning TikTok.
A bill debated by senators this month gives the Commerce Department new powers to ban technologies that threaten national security. (photo: Justlight / Dreamstime)
Source: Hot News
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