Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan and a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would give the Biden administration more power to regulate — and potentially ban — TikTok.
Sullivan said the surge could be the result of environmental groups’ opposition to the project, but also suggested “maybe that’s the Chinese Communist Party trying to influence young Americans.”
Sullivan has previously raised concerns about risks TikTok could pose to privacy and national security as well as the influence it could have on young people. In a January
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