TikTok is an addictive app that, for years, has provided the Chinese Communist Party with direct access to millions of Americans.

Owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, TikTok is used to provide a monsoon of CCP-approved propaganda while handing the Chinese government access to the data of TikTok’s international users, including location and biometric information such as “faceprints and voiceprints.”

In the spring of 2024 — what feels like a lifetime ago — the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), targeting TikTok. Signed into law by Joe Biden that April and upheld by the Supreme Court, the legislation requires a ban of TikTok in the United States on Jan. 19, 2025, unless ByteDanc

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