This is How Many People Help a Ban on TikTok

Near half of American adults help a ban on the Chinese language-owned social media app TikTok, in line with a brand new Reuters/Ipsos survey that additionally requested questions on nationwide safety considerations and China.

TikTok, owned by Chinese language tech big ByteDance and utilized by tens of tens of millions of People, has confronted calls from US lawmakers for a nationwide ban over considerations about potential Chinese language authorities affect.

Some 47 p.c of respondents to the two-day ballot, which concluded on Tuesday, mentioned they at the least considerably supported “banning the social media software, TikTok, from use in the US,” whereas 36 p.c opposed a ban and 17 p.c mentioned they did not know.

Fifty-eight p.c of Republicans favoured a ban, in comparison with 47 p.c of Democrats, the ballot confirmed.

The survey additionally revealed deep worries amongst People about China’s world affect at a time when US-China relations have fallen to their lowest level in a long time.

The web Reuters/Ipsos ballot was carried out nationwide, accumulating responses from 1,005 adults, together with 443 Democrats and 346 Republicans. It had a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of about 4 share factors in both path.

FBI Director Christopher Wray mentioned in March that China’s authorities might use TikTok to manage software program on tens of millions of units and drive narratives to divide People, including that the app “screams” of nationwide safety considerations.

Different prime US intelligence officers, together with CIA Director William Burns, even have mentioned TikTok poses a menace.

TikTok mentioned in an announcement that greater than 150 million People, together with 5 million U.S. companies, actively use TikTok to earn a residing, have interaction within the classroom, and discover group.

“We have taken unprecedented actions to safeguard protected U.S. person knowledge, and we are going to proceed working to construct a protected, safe, and inclusive platform to make sure the constructive expertise of our customers in each nook of the nation,” a TikTok spokesperson mentioned.

Efforts to offer the Biden administration new powers to ban TikTok have stalled in Congress. Final month US lawmakers mentioned they have been contemplating modifications to handle considerations concerning the invoice.

Nonetheless, the problem might turn into a spotlight for Republicans within the 2024 US presidential marketing campaign, with some candidates backing a TikTok ban.

Former President Donald Trump in 2020 sought to bar new downloads of TikTok however a sequence of courtroom selections blocked the ban from taking impact.

Florida governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has mentioned he favours some type of a nationwide ban on the app.

© Thomson Reuters 2023

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