Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) introduced a bill Tuesday that would ban the social media platform TikTok because of its links to China.
The bill, which has bipartisan support, takes aim at, which is required under Chinese law to disclose its data to the Communist Party, according to a statement by Rubio’s office.
The Averting the National Threat of Internet Surveillance, Oppressive Censorship and Influence and Algorithmic Learning by the Chinese Communist Party Act would block and prohibit “all transactions from any social media company in, or under the influence of, China, Russia and several other foreign countries of concern,” including Iran, North Korea and Venezuela.
,” Rubio said. “We know it’s used to manipulate feeds and influence elections. We know it answers to the People’s Republic of China.” Acknowledging Washington’s simmering tensions with Beijing, Gallagher called TikTok “digital fentanyl that’s addicting Americans, collecting troves of their data and censoring their news.”
A new bipartisan bill has been introduced that would ban TikTok due to the social media platform’s parent company’s ties to China.“Allowing the app to continue to operate in the US would be like allowing the U.S.S.R. to buy up the New York Times, Washington Post, and major broadcast networks during the Cold War,” Gallagher said.
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