US House speaker says lawmakers to move forward with TikTok bill

  WASHINGTON - 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. Devices owned by the U.S. government were recently banned from having the app installed. "The House will be moving forward with legislation to protect Americans from the technological tentacles of the Chinese Comm...Keep on reading: US House speaker says lawmakers to move forward with TikTok bill

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