Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) got into a heated debate Thursday morning regarding who owns the social media platform TikTok.
Paul was discussing his opposition to banning TikTok and how people need to be more clear on who owns ByteDance, the parent company of the platform. It comes after the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass legislation to force TikTok to separate itself from ByteDance or risk getting banned in the United States.
“This is the most important fact of all of this, and it needs to be debated, not assumed as a fact,” Paul said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends. “The company’s owned 60% by international investors, 20% by the two Chinese software engineers who developed it, the entrepreneurs who began the business, and 20% by their employees, 7,000 of whom are American. So, it’s
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