President Biden says he will sign bill banning TikTok [Video]

President Biden on Friday said that he would support a ban on TikTok if the bill to ban the controversial China-based social media app was passed in the House and Senate.

Biden was asked on Friday, the day after his State of the Union address, if he would sign a bipartisan bill that would ban TikTok if its China-based parent company ByteDance does not divest its stake in the social media platform.

“If they pass it, I’ll sign it,” Biden said. 

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Biden’s comments came after the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which was introduced by Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., passed unanimously in a bipartisan committee.

“This is my message to TikTok: break up with the Chinese Communist Partyor lose access to your American users,” Gallagher said in a press release. “America’s foremost adversary has no business controlling a dominant media platform in the United States. …