2023 Issue 38

A U.S. billionaire with a 7% ownership stake in TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has lent considerable support to the lobbying effort to prevent the banning of TikTok in the United States. 

Jeff Yass has helped persuade Congressional Republicans to abandon the effort to remove a social media platform controlled by a hostile foreign government that is actively waging countless political interference campaign across the United States and other democracies.