US lawmakers have also accused TikTok of failing to crack down on potentially harmful content. Thus, FBI Director Cristopher Wray has claimed Beijing could use TikTok to collect data on US citizens, peddle pro-China propaganda and spread misinformation. Top US intelligence officials see TikTok as a national security threat, largely because of its connection to China. Although the bill does not mention TikTok by name, it gives the US Secretary of Commerce the power to ban technology from China, where TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is based. Several bills have been introduced, but the most promising is the RESTRICT Act, not least because it has won the support of US President Joe Biden’s administration. In a rare bipartisan effort, Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress are pushing legislation that could block TikTok on US soil. But while its popularity among Americans is on the rise, so too are the efforts to oust it from the country. TikTok, an extremely popular video-sharing app, has just racked up 150 million users in the US, a third of whom have joined in the last two years.
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