>When many users opened the popular app on Thursday, the company greeted them with a message to oppose the legislation, prompting a flood of phone calls to several Capitol Hill offices.
“Stop a TikTok shutdown,” the message on the app read. It included a button for people to call their representatives, saying: “Let Congress know what TikTok means to you and tell them to vote NO.”
>Some users said on X that they were unable to use the app before placing the call.
It is essentially malware with the capability to directly affect electoral politics. It is a necessity that it is banned as soon as possible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-cal...
>When many users opened the popular app on Thursday, the company greeted them with a message to oppose the legislation, prompting a flood of phone calls to several Capitol Hill offices.
“Stop a TikTok shutdown,” the message on the app read. It included a button for people to call their representatives, saying: “Let Congress know what TikTok means to you and tell them to vote NO.”
>Some users said on X that they were unable to use the app before placing the call.
It is essentially malware with the capability to directly affect electoral politics. It is a necessity that it is banned as soon as possible.