On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver looked into the looming US ban of TikTok, the “social media app many are addicted to thanks to its cooking tutorials and dances that are impossible for anyone born before 1985 to look cool doing”.
TikTok has 170 million active users in the US – a third of US adults, and the majority of people under 30, use the app. “All of which makes it pretty remarkable that it may be on the brink of going away,” said Oliver. In April of this year, the Senate passed a bill giving the app’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and ultimatum: sell TikTok or face a ban in the US over national security risks.
