#house-committee

#house-committee

Lawmakers have said they're moving forward with plans for a national ban on TikTok, as users including Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez take to the app to protest.White House very in favor' of bill thought to target TikTok The snowballing effort to take action against TikTok comes after company chief Shou Zi Chew appeared before a US House committee for five hours on Thursday, where lawmakers from both parties grilled him about national security and other concerns involving the app.

The government of France has banned TikTok, and all other recreational apps, from phones issued to its employees.The nation's Ministère de la transformation et de la fonction publiques last Friday issued a statement [PDF] announcing the policy, which Minister of Transformation and Public Service Stanislas Guerini justified on grounds that no recreational apps have sufficiently robust security for them to be deployed on government-owned devices.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined TikTok to post a TikTok about banning TikTok after last week's hearing on TikTok on Capitol Hill.TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Thursday and was taken apart by both Republicans and Democrats over violations of user privacy, sending data to the communist Chinese government, and what was characterized as deliberate harm to American youth by both Democrats and Republicans.

By Kanishka Singh and Leah Douglas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Sunday lawmakers will move forward with legislation to address national security worries about TikTok, alleging China's government had access to the short video app's user data.In the United States, there are growing calls to ban TikTok, owned by China-based company ByteDance, or to pass bipartisan legislation to give President Joe Biden's administration legal authority to seek a ban.

Here's a look at the life of former US House speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.Birth date: June 17, 1943 Birth place: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Birth name: Newton Leroy McPherson; adopted at a young age by stepfather Robert Gingrich and took his last name Father: Newton C. McPherson, mechanic Mother: Kathleen (Daugherty) McPherson Gingrich Marriages: Callista (Bisek) Gingrich, (August 18, 2000-present); Marianne (Ginther) Gingrich, (August 8, 1981-April 6, 2000, divorced); Jackie (Battley) Gingrich (June 19, 1962-February 1981, divorced) Children: with Jackie (Battley) Gingrich: Jacqueline and Linda Kathleen Kathy Education: Emory University, B.A., 1965; Tulane University, M.A., 1968; Tulane University, Ph.D. in European History, 1971 Religion: Roman Catholic Is the first speaker of the House to be punished by the House for ethics violations, on January 21, 1997.

The odds of the U.S. banning TikTok are higher after the app's CEO testified before a House committee, according to some analysts.During the hearing, American politicians expressed frustration over what they saw as evasive and unconvincing answers about China's influence over TikTok - and the communist regime's ability to track user data - as well as its efforts to curb misinformation and harmful content, particularly in relation to children who use the app.

Shou Zi Chew will testify that app is not an agent of China or any other country' amid national security risk claims.TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will tell United States legislators that the Chinese-owned video app would never share users' data with Beijing amid a growing push in the US to ban the platform outright.

The riots that followed Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968 reverberated for decades in many US cities. "It's the most widespread unrest in America between the Civil War and 2020," says Vann R. Newkirk II, a senior editor at the Atlantic."Strangely, there's not a whole lot of media about that time."