Lawmakers active on TikTok remain a distinct minority. Most in Congress are in favor of limiting the app, forcing a sale to remove connections to China or even banning it outright.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jeff Jackson of North Carolina has used it to explain the complex fight over raising the debt limit. Rep. Robert Garcia of California has used it to engage with members of the LGBTQ+ community. And Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania has used it to give an overview of Election Day results. in Washington, the more than two dozen members of Congress — all Democrats — who are active on the social media platform are being pushed by their colleagues to stop using it.
“I’ve got to hand it to you,” said Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, as members questioned Chew over data security and harmful content. “You’ve actually done something that in the last three to four years has not happened except for the exception of maybe Vladimir Putin. You have unified Republicans and Democrats.”While the hearing made plain that lawmakers view TikTok as a threat, their lack of first-hand experience with the app was apparent at times.
Garcia, who said he uses TikTok more as a consumer, said most of his colleagues who are proposing a nationwide ban told him they had never used the app. “It gets hard to understand if you’re not actually on it,” the freshman Democrat said. “And at the end of the day, a lot of TikTok is harmless people dancing and funny videos.”
“There are 150 million people on TikTok and we are more connected to them than Republicans are,” Bowman said. “So for them, it’s all about fear-mongering and power. It’s not TikTok, because, again, we’ve looked the other way and allowed Facebook and other platforms to do similar things.” TikTok has been emphasizing a $1.5 billion proposal to store all U.S. user data on servers owned and maintained by . Access to U.S. data would be managed by U.S. employees through a separate entity run independently of ByteDance and monitored by outside observers.
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Members of Congress on TikTok defend app’s reach to votersLoud warnings about TikTok have been coming from President Joe Biden's administration and many in Congress.
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Members of Congress on TikTok defend app’s reach to votersMore than two dozen members of Congress — all Democrats — are active on the social media platform.
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Members of Congress on TikTok defend app's reach to votersMore than two dozen members of Congress — all Democrats — who are active on TikTok are now facing questions about whether they’ll continue to use it.
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