President Joe Biden signed a potential TikTok ban into law. His re-election campaign said it will keep using the app anyway.
President Joe Biden signed a bill Wednesday that could lead to a ban on TikTok, the popular social media app that U.S. lawmakers have said is susceptible to data manipulation by the Chinese Communist Party — and a platform that Biden’s own re-election campaign is using to reach young voters.
The bill gives TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, up to one year to sell the app or be banned from the U.S. Yet despite the looming court fight over ByteDance’s divestment and the persistent cries from lawmakers that the app is a „threat“ to national security, Biden’s campaign indicated it had no plans to quit TikTok during the election.
“A fragmented media environment requires us to show up and meet voters where they are — and that includes online,” a Biden campaign official told NBC News on Wednesday.
