In a 50-0 vote on Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a proposed law that would ban apps in the U.S. if they were tied to a foreign power. China-owned TikTok, chief among those in the bill’s crosshairs, organized a campaign to have users call their member of Congress; some of their users threatened to commit suicide and many others threatened to assassinate lawmakers. Those disturbing details were willfully omitted by the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC.
David Muir, the anchor for ABC’s World News Tonight, offered up a 22-second long news brief with only the most basic of details:
Tonight, here in Washington, Congress pushing a bill threatening to ban TikTok in the U.S. unless it’s sold by its Chinese parent company in six months. Lawmakers concerned about national security issues. It’s now out of committee and the full…
