The White House endorsed a bipartisan bill that could give the president authority to ban or force a sale of TikTok, support that could hasten passage and break a deadlock over how to address privacy concerns around the popular Chinese-owned app.
The bill introduced Tuesday would give the president the ability to force the sale of foreign-owned technologies, applications, software or e-commerce platforms if they present a national security threat to U.S. users. It doesn¡¯t mention Beijing-based Bytedance Ltd.¡¯s TikTok by name, but the video-sharing app, which has about 100 million users in the U.S., is the clear target.
¡°We look forward to continue working with both Democrats and Republicans on this bill, and urge Congress to act quickly to send it to the president¡¯s desk,¡± National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
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