Lawmakers leading a House panel on China are telling TikTok to stop its campaign to have users lobby Congress against measures meant to rid the app of its influence from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In a letter to the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform, the chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), and the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), said TikTok has been “spreading false claims in its campaign to manipulate and mobilize American citizens on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party” as it faces congressional scrutiny.
TikTok is currently the subject of legislation that has secured bipartisan support that seeks to force the app to divest from its Chinese ownership. The bill on March 7 advanced from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce with unanimous approval….
