The fight over TikTok’s presence here in the United States has been ongoing for some time, but last month, a bill was passed that would ultimately force TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to either sell TikTok to an American company and divest from the CCP or face a total ban in the states.
In April, the ban was passed inside the $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The vote “represents a bipartisan breakthrough against the CCP’s most powerful tool of information warfare against the United States” according to Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY).
TikTok would be a major acquisition for any American company and a few have already expressed interest, including Rumble which has offered to become a “cloud technology partner” with TikTok.
But ByeDance isn’t taking this ban without a fight and has already mounted a defense by going on the offense.
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