Tech Censorship

‘How TikTok Beat the Ban (For Now)’

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Earlier this spring, a TikTok ban seemed like an inevitability. Democrats and Republicans had come together to loudly blast big tech and Chinese interference, a rare moment of bipartisanship in Washington. So how are we still scrolling? New York contributing editor Andrew Rice digs into the lobbying blitzkrieg and political anxieties that helped slow momentum against the clock app. “I don’t think there is a lobbyist that I know that is not on TikTok’s payroll at this point,” says Senator Mark Warner, the Democrat who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and a leading voice for cracking down on the app. Andrew’s report is a clear-eyed examination of the tensions between privacy concerns and First Amendment rights and between young Americans and the political class in Washington, D.C.

—Marisa Carroll, features editor, New York

How TikTok Beat the Ban (for Now) This spring, Democrats and Republicans united to call for a crackdown on the app. It was never going to be that easy.

Illustration: by Zak Tebbal
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