As TikTok bill steams forward, online influencers put on their lobbying hats to visit Washington
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March 13, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers, meet your latest lobbyists: online influencers from TikTok.
The platform is once again bringing influencers to Washington, this time to lobby members of Congress to reject a fast-moving bill that would force TikTok's Beijing-based parent company to sell or be banned in the United States. On Tuesday, some influencers began a two-day advocacy event in support of TikTok, which arranged their trip ahead of a House floor vote on the legislation on Wednesday.
But unlike a similar lobbying event the company put together last March when talks of a TikTok ban reached a feve...
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