House Panel Votes to Advance Bill Banning TikTok

The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on March 1 to advance a bill that would empower President Joe Biden to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok in the United States.
The committee voted 24–16 along party lines, sending the bill to the House floor, where it will need approval by a majority of the chamber before moving to the Senate.
The measure, if eventually adopted by Congress, would be the most sweeping government action to date against the popular social media app, which security experts say can be used by the Chinese regime to spy on Americans or to promote pro-China influence campaigns or disinformation….}