Here’s How Many Americans Support a Ban on TikTok

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

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

Some 47 % of respondents to the two-day ballot, which concluded on Tuesday, stated they not less than considerably supported “banning the social media application, TikTok, from use in the United States,” whereas 36 % opposed a ban and 17 % stated they did not know.

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

The survey additionally revealed deep worries amongst Americans about China’s international affect at a time when US-China relations have fallen to their lowest level in many years.

The on-line Reuters/Ipsos ballot was performed nationwide, amassing responses from 1,005 adults, together with 443 Democrats and 346 Republicans. It had a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of about 4 proportion factors in both route.

FBI Director Christopher Wray stated in March that China’s authorities may use TikTok to regulate software program on tens of millions of gadgets and drive narratives to divide Americans, including that the app “screams” of nationwide safety issues.

Other high US intelligence officers, together with CIA Director William Burns, even have stated TikTok poses a menace.

TikTok stated in a press release that greater than 150 million Americans, together with 5 million U.S. companies, actively use TikTok to earn a residing, interact within the classroom, and discover neighborhood.

“We’ve taken unprecedented actions to safeguard protected U.S. user data, and we will continue working to build a safe, secure, and inclusive platform to ensure the positive experience of our users in every corner of the country,” a TikTok spokesperson stated.

Efforts to provide the Biden administration new powers to ban TikTok have stalled in Congress. Last month US lawmakers stated they have been contemplating adjustments to deal with issues concerning the invoice.

Still, the difficulty may grow to be 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 collection of court docket choices blocked the ban from taking impact.

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

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