WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Home committee on Thursday voted to launch a transcript of a closed-door listening to in March on threats posed by TikTok to the Justice Division in its protection of a regulation that seeks to pressure its Chinese language proprietor to divest the favored app’s U.S. belongings.
China-based ByteDance, TikTok and a bunch of TikTok creators have filed fits to dam the regulation that might ban the app utilized by 170 million People if the corporate fails to divest by Jan. 19. The Justice Division requested the Power and Commerce Committee to obtain a replica of the transcript from the labeled March listening to “to help of their litigation,” mentioned Consultant Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the committee chair.
It isn’t clear if any a part of the transcript might be made public.