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TikTok and its Chinese parent company are asking the United States government to take a closer look at legislation that could ban the social media platform in the country. On Dec. 9, TikTok and ...
TikTok Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and is based in both Singapore and Los Angeles. [13] It owns four entities that are based respectively in the United States, Australia (which also runs the New Zealand business), United Kingdom (also owns subsidiaries in the European Union), and Singapore (owns operations in Southeast Asia and India).
TikTok advertisers were in no rush to shift their marketing budgets after a U.S. appeals court upheld a law on Friday requiring a divestment or ban of the popular Chinese-owned short video app ...
In March 2024, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which would effectively ban TikTok unless it is divested from ByteDance within 180 days of the bill becoming a law, with U.S. president Joe Biden agreeing to sign it if the bill passed the U.S. Senate. [110]
Trump’s lawyers in the brief said Trump’s creation of his own social media site, Truth Social, and his use of TikTok, where he has 14.7 million followers, allows “him to evaluate TikTok’s ...
TikTok began working on Project Texas after 2020 to address data concerns from the US government. [115] From 2019 to 2024, TikTok and ByteDance combined spent $27 million on lobbying in the United States, including their hire of SKDK, a public affairs firm, in 2023 according to Politico.
TikTok is making two emergency appeals to save its social media app from a countrywide ban before the Supreme Court and President-elect Donald Trump. Neither is guaranteed to work.
In March 2024 the House of Representatives passed a bill which, if passed through the Senate and signed by the President, forces ByteDance to divest TikTok or have the platform banned. [163] In April, the United States Congress passed a modified version of the bill in a foreign aid package.