A Senate vote Tuesday includes a proposed nationwide ban on TikTok, citing national security concerns, and a lot of content creators are worried about their livelihood.
TikTok has 170 million American users and tracks how we consume content, what devices we use, how long we watch posts and what kind of posts we like to feed its algorithm.
The problem lawmakers have is that the Chinese government potentially has access to some or all of it. Tiktok denies this.
Ginger Conejero Saab has the full report in the video above, and NBC Bay Area spoke with a TikTok executive about the possible ban in the video below.
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TikTok's Head of Trust and Safety Suzy Loftus discusses a possible nationwide ban on the social media giant during a one-on-one with NBC Bay Area.
