Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi backs bill to ban TikTok

Washington, DC: Democratic congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi this week joined two Republican colleagues in the House in co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill that would ban the popular video-sharing app TikTok in the US. 

Krishnamoorthi told the Daily Herald on Thursday, just as the US Senate approved a bill banning TikTok from government devices, that he supports the House bill because TikTok is owned by a Chinese company that has allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party and that documents show has plans to track Americans. 

“It is important to recognize that this is not just a theoretical possibility,” Krishnamoorthi said. “In October, Forbes came out with a report, based on internal documents from ByteDance’s Internal Audit and Risk Control department, that the company had planned to use the app to monitor the personal locations of individual Americans for surveillance purposes unrelated to advertising or its business goals.” 

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