TikTok’s parent company has assured it has no plans to sell the app despite its problems in the US
Beijing (EFE).- ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, assured this Friday that it has “no intention” of selling the platform after the United States approved a bill that would force the Chinese company to get rid of the popular application. ” Is. He wants it to be banned in the North American country.
“ByteDance has no plans to sell TikTok,” the company said today via its official account on the Toutiao social network.
Earlier this week, TikTok had already announced that it would challenge this new law in court, which it considers “unconstitutional.”
Similarly, ByteDance clarified that there is “nothing true” about rumors that the company would be exploring options to sell TikTok without the algorithms used by the application.
Obligation to sell within nine months
In recent days, the US Senate has approved a bill that would force the Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok within nine months if it does not want the platform to be banned in the United States.
US lawmakers justified their decision by arguing that the platform posed a threat to US national security due to the possibility of the Chinese government accessing user data.
The US intelligence community has already accused China of using TikTok to influence the 2022 midterm elections and warned that it will interfere in the November elections this year due to its desire to “exacerbate the divisions in American society”. May also try to interfere.
Prohibited in America
The measure has the support of President Joe Biden, as well as Senate approval, who has announced on several occasions his intention to sign the legislation as soon as it reaches his office, and to ban TikTok in the United States first. Keeps it closer to the ban than ever before. ,
For its part, the Chinese government has on several occasions criticized the US “crackdown” against TikTok, maintaining that it is “an intimidation tactic” that will be “turned against” the North American country.
Last March, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce urged the United States to stop “unfair suppression” of companies from other countries and respect “the principles of market economy and fair competition.”
It should be noted that TikTok, like Western services like Google, Facebook, X or Instagram, is blocked in China, where ByteDance operates a similar application called Douyin, independent of TikTok.