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Only 28% of Americans Support Banning TikTok, Poll Says | 46% are worried that social media can be used to swing elections.


46% are worried that social media can be used to swing elections.

And while it remains to be seen whether the U.S. Senate will take up the so-called TikTok ban bill that passed the House earlier this month, this new poll will probably give lawmakers pause about the next steps. The House bill, “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” passed on March 13 with a vote of 352 to 65, but without clear partisan distinctions. “Younger people—seen as key to the outcome of the presidential election—are particularly opposed,” Ethan Granholm, a research analyst at Savanta, told Gizmodo in a statement over email.

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