U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bills to Ban TikTok, Citing Risk of China ‘Spying’ on Americans

Legislation seeking to ban TikTok in the U.S. has officially been introduced in Congress, in an effort led by GOP Sen. Marco Rubio. “This isn’t about creative videos — this is about an app that is collecting data on tens of millions of American children and adults every day,” Rubio said in a prepared statement about the Senate bill. “We know it’s used to manipulate feeds and influence elections. We know it answers to the People’s Republic of China.”

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