US lawmakers tune out TikTok lobbying to advance bill to ban app
A powerful US congressional committee has passed a bill that would remove TikTok from app stores unless its Chinese owner divests the video-sharing platform, brushing off a lobbying campaign that had enlisted thousands of its users.
The House energy and commerce committee approved the bipartisan bill 50-0 on Thursday after a classified briefing from officials about the risks the app posed to Americans because of its ownership by the Chinese group ByteDance.
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