U. S. Senator outlines what proposed social media app ban means to users

  • U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, speaks during a video on his X account Thursday. “The Chinese Communist Party shouldn’t be in control of Americans’ data or the information we see online. We are not banning TikTok—we are working to stop our adversaries from owning it,” Sen. Lankford said.
During the past couple of weeks, controversy has surrounded a bill created and approved by a vote of 82 percent by the U.S. House of Representatives, to force the sale of TikTok to an American company or face a ban of the popular app in the U.S. However, the ban is not intended on the platform of TikTok itself, but its parent company ByteDance. “The house passed overwhelmingly a bill, not to…

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