Congress

Inside Washington’s War Over TikTok

MIDDLE SCHOOL TEARS

As Congress closes in on a potential ban of the popular app, shifting coalitions of lawmakers, lobbyists, and operatives are furiously trying to outflank each other.

Riley Rogerson 

Politics Reporter

Reese Gorman
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Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
Riley Rogerson

Riley Rogerson

Politics Reporter

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Reese Gorman

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