US Lawmakers Step Up Push to Ban TikTok With Bill This Week

March 6, 2023, 2:08 AM UTC

US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner plans to introduce a bill this week to allow the US to systematically ban Chinese technology, including services like TikTok, he told Fox News on Sunday.

Calling it “a broad bipartisan bill” that will be co-sponsored by Republican John Thune of South Dakota, Warner said the law will give the US the power to ban or prohibit foreign technology where necessary. When asked if that would implicate ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok, he confirmed and elaborated on his reasoning.

Watch: Congress takes aim at TikTok.
Source: Bloomberg

“You have 100 million Americans on TikTok for 90 minutes every day,” the Democrat ...

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