New Bill Seeks to Force ByteDance to Divest TikTok

‘America’s foremost adversary has no business controlling a dominant media platform in the United States,” says Rep. Mike Gallagher.

The TikTok logo is displayed outside a TikTok office in Culver City, Calif., on Aug. 27, 2020. Mario Tama/Getty Images

A new bill would ban the TikTok social media app in the United States unless its Chinese-owned parent company divests.

The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act would ban app stores from making TikTok available and bar U.S.-based web hosting services in the United States from hosting other applications created by TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance.