Congress Should Think Bigger Than TikTok Ban, Tech Critics Say

TikTok, which declined to comment, has argued that industrywide rules are the best solution, and that it has invested significantly to protect personal data and audit its operations for doing so. It also pushed the idea of such rules in recent meetings with officials, according to a person familiar with those discussions who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly. ByteDance has spent $21 million on federal lobbying since its first disclosure in late 2019.