TikTok Ban: Influencers Scramble To Lobby Congress Against Banning Platform | Latin Post [Video]

While politicians on both sides of the aisle are about to vote on whether to force TikTok parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform or face a US ban, influencers are scrambling to Washington to try to prevent the possible TikTok ban.

These online influencers make money from the platform. Should it be banned from the US entirely, as lawmakers from both sides have been threatening, they might be losing their way of life. This comes as the US government seeks to pressure the Chinese-owned platform to make a very consequential decision over its future: selling TikTok or the platform should not be allowed in the United States entirely.

Security concerns have arisen after whistleblowers revealed that the parent company in Beijing has access to the private data of users, including ones in the US. As a Chinese company, ByteDance is required to submit its data to the Chinese government, including …