TikTok Can Keep ‘Bad Lip-Sync,’ Lawmakers Seeking Sale Say
- Supporters of legislation argue video app would survive
- White House sends mixed message about TikTok measure
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Lawmakers supporting a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent to sell the video-sharing app labored Wednesday to show they aren’t out to destroy the popular platform.
“We implore ByteDance to sell TikTok so that its American users can enjoy their dance videos, their bad lip-sync, everything else that goes along with TikTok,” Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Competition with China, told reporters. “We ask American users of TikTok to tell ByteDance to sell the platform. And this bill provides the way.”