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People gather for a press conference about a TikTok ban in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2023. | Brendan Smialowski\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TikTok’s future in the US<\/a> has perhaps never been in more doubt than it is right now. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, the short-form video app has been fighting increased scrutiny<\/a> from US lawmakers about its ties to ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns it.<\/p>\n

Concerns that ByteDance could share TikTok user data with China’s government<\/a> and push disinformation or propaganda through its recommendation algorithm have resulted in partial and mostly symbolic bans<\/a>. (There’s no evidence, at least not publicly, that this kind of sharing has ever happened.) <\/strong>Most recently, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted<\/a> to pass a bill that could eventually lead to a ban of <\/strong>the app. There’s a parallel set of concerns that TikTok<\/a> is dangerous to children and teens, an issue with many social media platforms, that’s been taken up by Congress<\/a> in the past year. Some states have been eyeing bans of social media<\/a> platforms in general for kids unless they have parental consent.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration<\/a> has demanded that TikTok’s Chinese owners, ByteDance, divest or sell off their stake<\/a> in the company. That would take the potential Chinese threat out of the equation entirely — but only if ByteDance and China<\/a> agree to it. <\/p>\n

Follow here for all of Vox’s coverage about TikTok’s fate in the US.<\/p>\n