New bipartisan Senate TikTok bill will be unveiled Tuesday

WASHINGTON — A highly anticipated bipartisan Senate measure to springiness the president the authorization to respond to threats posed by TikTok and companies similar it volition beryllium unveiled Tuesday day by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, a committee spokeswoman told CNBC.

The Virginia Democrat volition clasp a 3 p.m. ET property league with South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune, the pb co-sponsor of the legislation.

The precise substance of the authorities has yet to beryllium released, but Warner suggested this past play that the measure volition not beryllium constricted simply to reining successful TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech elephantine ByteDance.

"In presumption of overseas exertion coming into America, we've got to person a systemic attack to marque definite we tin prohibition oregon prohibit it erstwhile necessary," Warner said connected Fox News Sunday.

"TikTok is 1 of the potentials," that could beryllium targeted by the bill, Warner said. "They are taking information from Americans, not keeping it safe."

"But what worries maine much with TikTok is that this could beryllium a propaganda tool. The benignant of videos you spot would beforehand ideological issues," helium added.

Warner's measure comes astir a week aft the House Foreign Affairs Committee precocious a Republican-sponsored measure that aims to bash overmuch of the aforesaid thing.

The House authorities passed the GOP-controlled committee 24-16 on enactment lines, with unanimous GOP enactment and nary Democratic votes.

Dubbed the Deterring America's Technological Adversaries, oregon DATA, Act, the House measure mandates that the president enforce wide sanctions connected companies based successful oregon controlled by China that prosecute successful the transportation of the "sensitive idiosyncratic data" of Americans to entities oregon individuals based in, oregon controlled by, China.

And portion the DATA Act has precocious beyond its committee of jurisdiction, it was unclear Monday when, oregon if, it would person a ballot successful the afloat House.

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CNBC's Mary Catherine Wellons contributed reporting to this story.