Senate Republicans are introducing legislation that would ban TikTok and a number of other social media companies controlled by China from operating in the United States.
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) announced the legislation in an op-ed in The Washington Post on Nov. 10, in which they called the Chinese social media app a “major threat to national security.”
“The United States is locked in a new Cold War with the Chinese Communist Party [CCP], one that senior military advisers warn could turn hot over Taiwan at any time,” the senators wrote. “Yet millions of Americans increasingly rely on TikTok, a Chinese social media app exposed to the influence of the CCP, to consume the news, share content and communicate with friends.”…