The bill's sponsors claim that this measure does not trigger First Amendment scrutiny because it merely requires TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to divest its holdings if it wants to keep the popular app available to hundreds of millions of U.S. users.
TikTok has approximately 170 million users in this country alone, and is especially popular with younger generations and people of color, who use TikTok to organize, communicate, educate and entertain.
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