Six more U.S. senators on Friday backed bipartisan legislation to give President Joe Biden new powers to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok on national security grounds as the company ramped up efforts to make its case ahead of a hearing next week.
This month, 12 senators led by Democrat Mark Warner and Republican John Thune unveiled legislation backed by the White House to give the Commerce Department new powers to regulate TikTok, which has more than 100 million U.S. users.
This week, TikTok said the Biden administration demanded that TikTok's Chinese owners divest their stake in the app or it could face a U.S. ban. Nine Republicans and nine Democrats now sponsor the legislation, the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act. Separately, a source confirmed to Reuters the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation after ByteDance said in December some employees improperly accessed U.S. TikTok user data of two journalists.
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