Senators pitch last-ditch effort to save TikTok - FOX 2
Jan 15, 2025 · Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced legislation this week that would extend the deadline for parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok in 270 days. ... Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says he does ...
TikTok ban falls hard on Apple and Google - POLITICO
4 days ago · After the ruling Friday, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told reporters that U.S. app store providers like Google and Apple “need to comply with the law” and its requirement that they immediately ...
Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban in the U.S. | WFLA
5 days ago · So far ByteDance has declined to sell, with the deadline just days away. ... Bill filed by Florida Senator Rick Scott would end … 5 hours ago. Survivor using lived experience to fight against ...
Trump has vowed to save TikTok. Lawmakers are wondering how.
Jan 12, 2025 · Trump himself pushed for TikTok to be banned or sold by ByteDance, its China-based parent company, during his first administration. ... “It’d be great,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida) said when asked about the prospect. After a federal appeals court upheld the law last month, Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Michigan), the chair of the House select ...
GOP senators prep hardline approach to Trump's stance on China, …
2 days ago · McCourt and O’Leary lead a team that has submitted a reported $20 billion offer to TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to acquire the platform’s U.S. operations.
TikTok content creator reacts to looming ban: 'On TikTok, our …
6 days ago · Meghan Lynn has more than 500,000 followers on TikTok and has appeared alongside Senator Rick Scott in a few TikTok videos. ... A ByteDance-owned lifestyle app blending TikTok’s video features ...
Tracker: What US Senators Are Saying About TikTok Legislation
Apr 11, 2024 · The bill, called the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” (HR 7521), would force TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to divest from the video app within six months or face a ban from app stores in the US.
TikTok’s fate arrives at Supreme Court in collision of free ... - WFLA
Jan 9, 2025 · TikTok and China-based ByteDance, as well as content creators and users, argue the law is a dramatic violation of the Constitution’s free speech guarantee.
TikTok defiant after federal court upholds law to force its sale
Dec 6, 2024 · A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied petitions to block the law from TikTok, its parent company ByteDance and creator groups.
Sen. Rick Scott Condemns Met Gala for Inviting TikTok CEO as …
Feb 17, 2024 · Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has condemned the fashion magazine Vogue’s decision to name TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew to serve as an honorary chair at this year’s Met Gala event in May. “Disturbing the Met Gala would allow TikTok’s CEO to be an ‘honorary’ chair,” Mr. Scott said on X on Feb. 15.