The effort to ban TikTok is back, and it could gain more strength after the midterm elections.
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that China-based employees of ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, had accessed nonpublic data about U.S. users. TikTok denied turning over U.S. data to Chinese officials and said it never would, though it acknowledged that Chinese employees have some access to it. Chief Operating Officer for TikTok, Vanessa Pappas, testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on Capitol Hill, on Sept. 14, 2022.Experts said there’s a steep hill to climb for those who want a total TikTok ban, but the midterms could provide a push.
“The midterms will play some role,” Thayer said. “Next Congress, we’re probably going to see more China hawks, and I think TikTok is going to be part of that campaign.” Brendan Carr, a Republican who was nominated to the Federal Communications Commission by Trump, added fuel to the TikTok criticism when hethat he wants to see the app banned, and although the FCC can’t do so on its own, his comments reflected the ongoing interest in the idea.
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