Former Trump administration officials, a communications regulator, conservative commentators and several Republican lawmakers have been working in recent months to revive the Trump-era movement to ban TikTok, or at least to force a spinoff.
BuzzFeed News reported
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.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 he told Axios in
that 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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