TikTok’s days may be numbered after the House of Representatives approved legislation Saturday that would ban the popular social media application nationwide unless its Chinese owners sell. (USA Today)
While lawmakers in the House advanced a similar bill last month, this effort is different for two reasons: It is attached to a sweeping foreign aid bill providing support for Ukraine and Israel; and it addresses concerns from some members of the Senate by extending the deadline for TikTok to find a buyer. (NPR)
The bipartisan vote of 360-58 marks the latest defeat for TikTok in Washington, D.C., as the embattled social media company with 170 million U.S. users fights for survival under its current ownership by ByteDance, its Chinese parent company. (CNN)
TikTok is preparing to remove a key executive responsible for convincing the U.S. government that the company was doing enough to stave off national security concerns about its connections to China—Erich Andersen, U.S.-based general counsel for TikTok and ByteDance—according to people familiar with the matter. (Bloomberg)