Don’t save TikTok, save America from TikTok

Last year, Congress passed a bill with overwhelming support demanding that Chinese parent company ByteDance either sell its popular social media app TikTok to an American company or have it banned from U.S. app stores beginning Jan. 19, 2025.

The bill, which is currently being challenged at the Supreme Court, is the culmination of years of rising concerns about the ways in which the Chinese Communist Party can use TikTok both for espionage and to influence its over 150 million, mostly young, American users through manipulation of the app’s algorithm.