As the music industry fights TikTok over licensing, the White House says Biden will sign the bill currently in Congress that would effectively ban the app in the United States.
The White House says President Biden will support the bill currently in Congress that would effectively ban TikTok, the short-form video app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, in the United States. The bipartisan legislation would require ByteDance to sell TikTok over national security concerns surrounding the way the app stores and uses data, in order to remain operational in the United States.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told the press that the bill is “important,” and those at the White House “welcome this step.” Notably, Biden signed a bill banning TikTok on government devices in 2022. But that hasn’t stopped