What is the term TikTok Ultimatum?
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It happened so quickly, especially for Congress, which is very slow. A couple of weeks ago, the House passed a bill that will force TikTok to find an American owner or be banned for six months. And what happened was it was going to get sent to the Senate, the Senate wasn’t too happy with it. Senator Maria Cantwell was kind of in support but she wanted to lengthen that timeframe to about nine months. Now, after some negotiations between the House and the Senate, they included that language, lengthening that timeline. The Senate voted very quickly Tuesday night to send it to the President, after the House voted again on it, attached to a foreign aid bill.
Barely an hour after the Senate passed its TikTok bill Tuesday night, President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign was posting new content to the platform. In a video that was posted at 10 pm, Biden appeared with a labor group and smiled ear to ear.
The administration or campaign doesn’t appear to have a plan for Biden to address it. I reached out to the White House after the Wednesday speech to see if there was anything we could expect from the president in the future. The National Security Council directed me to Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, at the White House press briefing. I did not get a clear answer when I pinged the Biden campaign.
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“I think it’s probably smart to not center it, but it means there’s no counterprogramming, which I think allows for some of the conspiracies to go unchecked,” the user behind the X account @organizermemes told me over DMs Wednesday afternoon. It is possible that doing that would have had an affect on the issue.
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Joe Biden: It’s going to make America safer, it’s going to make the world safer, and it continues America’s leadership in the world, and everyone knows it.
Today on the show, we’re going to talk about what happens to TikTok and how this new law affects the politicians and influencers who use the app. The WIRED Politics desk in New York has Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott with me this week. How are you doing now that the week is over?
