
"We will continue to brief members of Congress on the plans that have been developed under the oversight of our country's top national security agencies – plans that we are well underway in implementing – to further secure our platform in the United States. "TikTok is loved by millions of Americans who use the platform to learn, grow their businesses, and connect with creative content that brings them joy," said Brooke Oberwetter, a TikTok spokesperson. TikTok in a statement to USA TODAY this week called Rubio’s proposed legislation “politically motivated.” The Senate also passed a bill in 2020 to ban TikTok, but it never passed in the House. The orders tried to block new users from downloading TikTok or WeChat, a messaging app, but the orders failed in court. Yes, former President Donald Trump issued orders focused on Chinese tech companies. The ban came shortly after a clash between.

teenagers say they ever use TikTok, according to the Pew Research Center. India imposed a ban on TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps, including the messaging app WeChat, in 2020 over privacy and security concerns. The average American user watched TikTok for 80 minutes a day, The Washington Post reported.Īpproximately 67% of U.S.

The app said last year that more than one billion people around the world use TikTok every month.
