The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications
Act (PAFACA) is a proposed bill in the United States Congress. The bill would
make it illegal to distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution,
maintenance, or updating of) social media applications designated as being
controlled by United States "foreign adversaries", unless exempted
under a qualified divestiture as determined by the president of the United
States.
The bill explicitly targets Chinese internet technology company ByteDance and
its video platform TikTok, and also provides for other large social media
applications to be targeted under the bill if they are deemed by the U.S.
president to pose a threat to national security. The bill was passed by the
House of Representatives on March 13, 2024; and if passed through the Senate,
forces ByteDance to sell TikTok, or have the platform banned altogether.