Biden campaign continues Tick-tock, Even after President Biden signed a bill forcing the video-sharing social media platform to sell to its China-based parent company or face a ban in the United States, Fox News has learned.
A Biden campaign official told Fox News on Wednesday that the Biden-Harris campaign is “staying on TikTok.”
President Biden on Wednesday morning signed a Senate-passed bill that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to sell the app or have it banned in the United States. Lawmakers have denounced the platform as dangerous to Americans. Security, user data collection, and propaganda dissemination.
China-based Tiktok parent must sell platform or be banned in US
Prominent pro-Democratic political accounts on TikTok are damaging President Biden’s reputation ahead of the 2024 presidential election. ((Left: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration, Right: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst))
of TikTok method It was part of a package of bills that provided $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
House Republicans’ decision last week to add the TikTok bill to the foreign aid package helped speed its passage after an earlier version of the bill stalled in the Senate. The Senate version would have given ByteDance six months to sell its stake in the platform, but some lawmakers said this would create complications that could be in the tens of billions of dollars. They believed that the grace period was too short for such transactions.
The new measures will allow ByteDance to sell TikTok for nine months, with the possibility of a three-month extension if the sale is in progress. The bill would also prohibit the company from controlling the algorithms that display videos based on users’ interests.
This bill was passed during the Bipartisan concerns in Congress Over threats from China, including ownership of TikTok. Lawmakers and administration officials have long expressed concerns that Chinese authorities could force ByteDance to provide U.S. user data and influence Americans by promoting certain content on its platform. I’ve done it.
China had previously expressed its opposition. Force TikTok salesHe expressed his opposition to the latest bill. TikTok has long denied that this is a security threat and is preparing a lawsuit to block the bill.
“Once the bill is signed, we intend to go to court for legal challenges,” Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s head of public policy for the Americas, said in a memo to employees on Saturday. Stated.
“This is the beginning, not the end of this long process,” Beckerman wrote.
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The platform has had some success in court challenges in the past, but has never tried to block enforcement of federal law.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, TikTok slammed the law, calling it “unconstitutional.”
“This unconstitutional law bans TikTok, and we will challenge it in court,” TikTok said in a statement. “We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side and that ultimately we will prevail.”
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The company said it has “invested billions of dollars to keep America’s data safe and protect our platform from outside influence and manipulation.”
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“This ban will destroy 7 million businesses and silence 170 million Americans,” the company continued. “As we continue to challenge this unconstitutional ban, we are committed to investing and making sure TikTok remains a space where Americans from all walks of life can safely share experiences, find joy, and find inspiration. We will continue to innovate.”
FOX News’ Mark Merideth, Landon Mion and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
