Despite having recently joined TikTok to reach young people with campaign videos, President Biden is also backing a bill to ban TikTok.
President Biden may have posted his first video to TikTok last month in an attempt to reach Gen Z voters, but that doesn't mean he's a fan of the popular video-sharing app. On the contrary, Biden is now backing a bill in Congress that would result in a domestic ban of the app, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.
'This bill is important,' White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in recent days, about the legislation that would impose a ban if ByteDance doesn't sell off the app over the myriad national security concerns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDdinofi0-A That last part is, of course, a loophole big enough to drive a truck through.
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