TikTok has presented a detailed proposal to a secretive federal panel that will decide its future in the U.S. that relies extensively on the American tech giant…
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray speaks to the media during a news conference at FBI Headquarters, on June 14, 2018 in Washington, DC. Wray told Congress Tuesday that he is “extremely concerned” about the threat posed by the Chinese government’s ownership of TikTok. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
The U.S. Supreme Court Building on Oct. 03, 2022. The high court will hear a landmark content moderation case involving Google this term. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The TikTok logo is pictured at the company’s booth during the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba prefecture on Sept. 15, 2022. (Photo by YUICHI YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Banning TikTok because of its Chinese owners leaves policymakers playing a game of whack-a-mole instead of focusing on privacy legislation that matters.
From left, Chris Cox, chief product officer for Meta, Neal Mohan, chief product officer for YouTube, Vanessa Pappas, chief operating officer for TikTok, and Jay Sullivan, general manager of Bluebird Twitter, are sworn in during a US Senate Homeland Security hearing regarding social media’s impact on homeland security and disinformation on September 14, 2022. The executives are under fire for the vast amount of disinformation on their platforms, but they say if the Supreme Court upholds Texas and Florida laws seeking to ban them from curating content the problem will grow much worse. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
A teenager presents a smartphone with the logo of Chinese social network Tik Tok, on January 21, 2021 in Nantes, western France. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)