Marin officials laud effort to constrain TikTok

Marin’s congressional representative and the county’s top education leader said they support newly approved federal legislation that could lead to a ban on TikTok.

The company that owns the popular social media platform will now have nine months to divest itself of its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or face exclusion in U.S. app stores.

Proponents worry that the Chinese government could use TikTok to access the data of users that include an estimated 170 million Americans. One of them...