Is TikTok shutting down? Pop-up message rallies users against Congress
When some users scrolled through TikTok today, they were confronted with a rather alarming pop-up: “Stop a TikTok shutdown,” it says, urging users to “tell Congress what TikTok means to you” with a call button.The pop-up, which users said they could bypass after closing out of the app and reopening it, comes as the House Energy and Commerce Committee is set to discuss a new bipartisan bill on Thursday. If passed, the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” would leave TikTok with two…