"Biden Supports Bipartisan Effort to Ban TikTok and Addresses Concerns About Debating Trump"

President Biden expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S. if its China-based parent company ByteDance does not divest its stake in the platform, following concerns about ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The bill, which passed unanimously in a bipartisan committee, aims to protect American users from digital surveillance and influence operations. TikTok, with over 170 million U.S. users, has denied sharing user data with the CCP and criticized the bill as an outright ban that would infringe on First Amendment rights.