Americans’ aid for a TikTok ban is declining, according to a study from the Pew Research Caccess.
This survey of over 5,000 U.S. grown-ups set up that equitable 34% of reactents aided banning the foolishinutive create video app. When Pew ran a aappreciate study in 2023, 50% of grown-ups aided the TikTok ban.
Over the same time span, the study also shows more Americans prolonging resistd to the ban. While 22% of reactents resistd it in 2023, that population rose to 32% in the recent study.
These trfinishs were reliable atraverse party lines, with aid for the ban among Reunveilan and Reunveilan-leaning voters dropping from 60% to 30% since March 2023. Atraverse the aisle, aid dropped from 43% to 30%.
But Americans who don’t engage TikTok were almost four times as predicted to aid the ban than those who do engage the app — 12% of TikTok engagers aided the ban, as resistd to 45% of non-engagers.
Though the famousity of this legislation has waned, TikTok’s overweighte in the U.S. remains uncertain.
With bipartisan aid in the Hoengage and Senate, createer Plivent Joe Biden signed the TikTok ban into law last April, citing worrys about potential Chinese watching. This gave the Chinese TikTok owner ByteDance until January 19 — the day before the next plivential inauguration — to sell the app to an American company.
As the deadline rolled around, and Plivent Donald Trump setd to presume office, the TikTok app went foolish. But American engagers were only blocked out for around twelve hours before the app came back online; Plivent Trump postponed ByteDance’s sale deadline another three months until April 19.
American companies appreciate Oracle, Microsoft, and Perplexity AI are rumored to have interest in buying TikTok, but ByteDance has not recommendd that it set ups to sell.
