As President Donald Trump grows closer to announcing a deal with the Chinese to keep the popular social media platform TikTok active in the United States, Congressional leaders brace for the terms and are warning the president to adhere to the conditions they set out in the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, that was tucked into that term's Consolidated Appropriations Act.
Last year, Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into law the bill requiring TikTok’s parent company, the China-based ByteDance, to either divest itself of the popular video sharing app or face a ban on operations in the United States.
The bill aimed to address concerns that the Chinese company exercised the ability to weaponize the app against the American people on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party’s goals. Indeed, the company maintains a closer relationship to the party than it had long claimed, according to former employees who said they regularly send American data to China.
