Blake Chandlee, TikTokβs president of global business solutions, last June. In Manhattan Thursday, he said: βWe believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side and that we will ultimately prevail.β
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijingβs hostility.
TikTok supporters on Capitol Hill last month. The proposed law would allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States if its Chinese owner sold it within about nine months.
A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok lobbyists while bulletproofing a bill that could ban the app.
Congressional representatives joined TikTok creators at the Capitol last year ahead of a House vote to ban the app. The Senate passed a version of the bill this week.
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijingβs hostility.
TikTok supporters on Capitol Hill last month. The proposed law would allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States if its Chinese owner sold it within about nine months.
βTikTok definitely has a branding issue in the United States,β said Sister Monica Clare, a nun in Mendham, N.J., who appears in an ad for the video app.
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