UNDER SCRUTINY
Underneath the Invoice, ByteDance must promote the app inside a 12 months or be excluded from Apple and Google’s app shops in america.
The Home of Representatives final month accepted an analogous Invoice cracking down on TikTok, however the measure acquired held up within the Senate.
Steven Mnuchin, who served as US treasury secretary below former president Donald Trump, has stated he’s thinking about buying TikTok and has assembled a gaggle of traders.
TikTok has been within the crosshairs of US authorities for years, with authorities saying the platform permits Beijing to listen in on customers in america.
However a legislation banning it might set off lawsuits. This Invoice offers the US president the authority to designate different functions as a menace to nationwide safety if they’re managed by a rustic deemed hostile.
Elon Musk, the billionaire proprietor of X, previously Twitter, got here out on Friday towards banning TikTok, saying it went towards freedom of expression.
“TikTok shouldn’t be banned within the USA, regardless that such a ban might profit the X platform,” Musk stated in a put up on the social community he acquired in 2022.
“Doing so could be opposite to freedom of speech and expression,” stated Musk.
