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US House passes bill that could ban TikTok nationwide
The bill would force a Chinese tech giant to sell its stake in the app, but its fate in the Senate is unclear.
Speaking ahead of the vote, Hakeem Jeffries - the top Democrat in the House - welcomed the bill, saying it would decrease "the likelihood that TikTok user data is exploited and privacy undermined by a hostile foreign adversary". "We are united in our concern about the national security threat posed by TikTok - a platform with enormous power to influence and divide Americans whose parent company ByteDance remains legally required to do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party," they said in a statement. But White House Spokesperson Karine Jean Pierre insisted that the bill merely sought to ensure that ownership of major technology platforms operating in the US "wouldn't be in the hands of those who can exploit them".
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