Trump’s plans to save TikTok may fail to keep it online, Democrats warn

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Three Democratic senators are urging President Donald Trump to work with Congress to save TikTok from going dark in the US after April 5th, rather than plow ahead with plans that could leave TikTok’s service providers open to hundreds of billions of dollars in liability. Sens. Ed Markey (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) say they oppose the TikTok ban, which was passed by Congress in an overwhelming vote last year and required the app’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest it by January 19th or face an effective expulsion. But, they write in a letter to Trump, “it is unacceptable and unworkable for your Administration to continue ignoring the requirements in the law, as you did in January by extending the divestment deadline to April 5.” The l ... Read full article.