Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) criticized a reported preliminary deal between the Biden administration and TikTok that avoids major changes to the popular video-sharing app’s Chinese ownership.
“Any ‘agreement’ with TikTok absent full divestment from ByteDance and the Chinese Communist Party is a bad deal–both for U.S. national security and for the millions of Americans whose private data will remain accessible to Beijing, per Chinese law,” Rubio told The Epoch Times in an email. ByteDance, a Beijing-based tech giant, is TikTok’s parent company.
The Biden administration and TikTok have drafted a preliminary agreement to resolve national security concerns but are still finalizing the terms, media outlets recently reported citing unnamed officials….