House panel requests FTC investigate if TikTok violated child protection act

TikTok’s Push for Users to Lobby Congress Should Be Investigated, Lawmakers Say

Exhortations to users to contact their representatives amid a debate over banning the app might have broken the law, the leaders of a House committee say

House panel requests FTC investigate if TikTok violated child protection act

The leaders of a bipartisan panel that is focused on China have sent a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether TikTok has violated child protection laws in its efforts to stop the United States from banning the app. The letter, obtained by The Hill and first reported by NBC News, is…

Calling on FTC for Inquiry Into Whether TikTok Broke Child Privacy Laws

Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party called for a federal inquiry into whether TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, other laws, or its own terms of service when the company fed deceptive information to American chil

House China panel asks FTC to probe whether TikTok violated child privacy law

House China Committee asks the FTC to investigate if TikTok targeted children with pop-up messages as it lobbied to avoid a U.S. ban.

House China panel requests FTC investigation into whether TikTok violated child privacy laws

TikTok had sent a pop-up message to users on the app that the committee claimed contained "verifiably false information" in a last-ditch effort to stop Congress from passing the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Application Act," last month.