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Bring Me The Horizon announce January 2024 UK & Ireland arena tour

They play 10 headline shows

Fresh from playing an explosive, pyro-tastic headline set at Download Festival , Bring Me The Horizon have announced a colossal UK & Ireland tour for January 2024.

In support of their brand-new studio album titled ‘POST HUMAN: NEX GEN’, Bring Me The Horizon will play 10 arenas early next year.

The tour kicks off at Cardiff International Arena on Tuesday 9th January, and visits Bournemouth, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield and London before concluding at Dublin 3Arena on Tuesday 23rd January.

Special guests on all dates will be Bad Omens, Casseytte and Static Dress.

Tickets to the UK dates go on sale from Kerrang! Radio Tickets at 10am on Friday 16th June 2023.

You can check out photos of Bring Me The Horizon’s phenomenal headline set at Download Festival below alongside pics of Evanescence, Within Temptation, Architects and many more.

Bring Me The Horizon’s UK tour dates:

JANUARY 2024

Cardiff International Arena – Tue 9th

Bournemouth International Centre – Wed 10th

Birmingham Utilita Arena – Fri 12th

Manchester AO Arena – Sat 13th

Glasgow OVO Hydro – Sun 14th

Newcastle Utilita Arena – Tue 16th

Liverpool M & S Bank Arena – Wed 17th

Sheffield Utilita Arena – Fri 18th

London The O2 Arena – Sat 20th

Dublin 3 Arena – Tue 23rd

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• Date 20 Jan - 21 Jan 2024
• Venue The O2 arena
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Bring Me The Horizon make their way to The O2 in January 2024. Tickets on sale now. 

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Bring Me The Horizon is currently touring across 12 countries and has 13 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at Mystic Festival in Gdansk, after that they'll be at Festivalpark Hradec Králové in Hradec Králové.

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this show was super super good! i didn’t have GA and bought practically the last row of seats, but one of security guards gave me and my girlfriend tickets for seats that were 19 rows closer, the energy was amazing and everyone was super nice! i could see so much from the new seats and was super happy!!! the pits were cool, a little sad more towards the end, but funny to watch people were narato running through them and were acting like airplanes running through them and whenever someone fell the other people picked them right up and they kept going, really fun to watch!!!!! oli came into the crown during drown and not just through the floor but through the stands too and i was super close to him!!!!! plus the person who came up on stage to sing antivist knew all the lyrics and had super good energy and was ready to keep the crowd hyped and people were still dancing and moshing while he was singing!

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This show ranks among the most disappointing of my life.

That's not to say that the music itself was anything less than phenomenal, but there were so many on-stage distractions that they actually took away from the performance.

THEY HAD BACKUP DANCERS, Y'ALL!!!! And, I'm not taking Destiny's Child caliber dancers. Ohh no. Imagine, if you would, please a forth-grade single-day cheer camp. Yep :-/ That's not an exaggeration. The dancers were horrific to the point of insulting.

Should I be able to stop there, it might have been redeemable.

Sadly, I cannot.

The stage is backed by video monitors, and upon said screens plays this stream-of-consciousness screensaver. It felt rather like those daydreams one wakes from with a start.

They. Were. Awful.

In order to enjoy the music, I had to close my eyes, because there was so much distracting from it.

VERY DISAPPOINTING.

The show last night was beyond words.. Whenever BMTH comes to town here in Denver they always bring their A game with them!! I highly recommend seeing this band if they ever are in your state because they know how to put on a hell of a show!!! My favorite part of the show had to be when they ended up playing an encore as the crowd was chanting "we will never sleep cause sleepings for the weak no we will never rest until we are all f***ing dead" I don't think they could let a crowd down that was that energetic and responsive torwds the band,surely the band didn't dissapoint us at all and came back out from back stage to win all our hearts and finished the show off with thrones. BMTH also had suprised everyone in the audience with giant confetti flying in the air everywhere as the song climaxed to the final chorus. What a show for the books and i had no idea that so many people would attend the show lastnight. This was my second time seeing them play live, I didn't really care much for the opening bands thou.. I miss the days when parkway drive would open up for them back at the summit music hall.

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Bring Me The Horizon announce new album and 2024 UK/Ireland arena tour during Download set

'POST HUMAN: NeX GEn' is set to be released later this year

Bring Me The Horizon headlined Download Festival last night (June 9), and announced a new album and 2024 arena tour at the show.

• READ MORE:  Bring Me The Horizon on stepping up for the scene: “Things are better when you’re not the only one”

On September 15, the band will release ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn’ via Sony/RCA, and head out on a UK and Ireland tour next year with support from Bad Omens, Cassyette and Static Dress.

The new album follows the recent sharing of single ‘AmEN!’ , which features Lil Uzi Vert  and Daryl Palumbo of  Glassjaw . ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn’ will follow their 2020 EP ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ .

Presale tickets for the tour will begin on Wednesday, June 14 at 10am BST, with a general sale following on Friday, June 16, also at 10am. Find your tickets here .

𝙋𝙊𝙎𝙏 𝙃𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙉: 𝙉𝙚𝙓 𝙂𝙀𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 15𝙩𝙝 𝙎𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 2023. 𝙐𝙆, 𝙥𝙧𝙚-𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙚-𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙆 & 𝙄𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙅𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙮 2024. 𝘼𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙚-𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨… pic.twitter.com/DzG5pchTSC — Bring Me The Horizon (@bmthofficial) June 9, 2023

Bring Me The Horizon will play:

JANUARY 2024 9 – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena 10 – Bournemouth, BIC 12 – Birmingham, Utilita Arena 13 – Manchester, AO Arena 14 – Glasgow, OVO Arena 16 – Newcastle, Utilita Arena 17 – Liverpool, M&S Bank Arena 19 – Sheffield, FlyDSA Arena 20 – London, The O2 23 – Dublin, 3Arena

The band recently revealed that they have been working on new music in a studio built into the back of their tour bus with producer Zakk Cervini, and drummer Matt Nicholls said back in March that the band are set to release new music “pretty soon” , revealing that they had written and recorded “a bunch of stuff” while touring the US late last year.

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Reviewing ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ upon its release , NME said: “What could have been an act of self-sabotage or self-indulgence – or both – has transpired to be a welcome reminder of all that this band does best, rooted in raw relevance for today and the cyber-punk energy of tomorrow.”

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Bring Me The Horizon announce new album and tour

Bring Me The Horizon's seventh album will arrive later this year, with a UK and Ireland tour kicking off in early 2024

Sheffield's Bring My The Horizon have announced that they'll release their seventh album Post Human: Nex Gen later this year. They'll follow the album with a tour of The UK and Ireland early next year, news confirmed during the band's headlining set  at this year's Download Festival . 

The 10-date run of shows will kick off at the International Arena, Cardiff, on January 9, and wrap up at Dublin's 3 Arena on January 23. The dates will also include a show at London’s 20,000 capacity O2 Arena and a hometown booking at Sheffield’s Utilita Arena. Full dates below. 

Ticket pre-sales will begin this Wednesday at 10am, with tickets going on sale to the general public at the same time on Friday. Support at all shows will comes from Bad Omens, Casseytte and Static Dress.

Next week Bring Me The Horizon join Fall Out Boy for their summer US stadium and arena tour, which commences on June 21 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL. Full dates follow - tickets are on sale now . 

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Jan 09: Cardiff International Arena Jan 10: Bournemouth International Centre, UK                           Jan 12: Birmingham Utility Arena, UK                             Jan 13: Manchester AO Arena, UK                            Jan 14: Glasgow 0VO Hydro, UK                                  Jan 16: Newcastle Utilita Arena, UK                               Jan 17: Liverpool M&S Bank Arena, UK                                 Jan 18: Sheffield Utilita Arena, UK                                  Jan 20: London O2 Arena, UK                                   Jan 23: Dublin 3 Arena, Ireland    

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Here’s Bring Me The Horizon’s setlist from the first night of their UK and Ireland tour

Bring Me The Horizon’s NX_GN tour began last night in Cardiff, alongside Bad Omens, Static Dress and Cassyette. Here’s a look at what they played – from Drown to Teardrops to Shadow Moses…

Last night in Cardiff, Bring Me The Horizon kicked off the first night of their sold-out NX_GN tour, supported by Bad Omens , Static Dress and Cassyette in what might be one of the best tour line-ups of the year.

As Horizon move ever-closer to their new record, the setlist is packed with latest singles like DArkSide and AmEN!, as well as the first-ever live performance of Kool‐Aid , which dropped last week.

Leaning heavily into latter-era BMTH, the Steel City heavyweights did find room for the monstrous mosh anthem Diamonds Aren't Forever from Suicide Season, which followed an acoustic rendition of sTraNgeRs in a clear display of what the band are now capable.

With barely any room to breathe in the final few songs, it's banger after banger – Bad Omens vocalist Noah Sebastian even made a surprise appearance on vocals for the superb swearathon Antivist – culminating in the modern metal classic Throne.

If you're heading along to the Horizon tour in the next week or so, here's what's in store...

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DArkSide Empire (Let Them Sing) MANTRA Teardrops AmEN! Kool‐Aid Shadow Moses Obey DiE4u Kingslayer sTraNgeRs (acoustic) Diamonds Aren't Forever Parasite Eve Antivist (with Noah Sebastian) Drown Can You Feel My Heart Encore: Doomed LosT Throne

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ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE Like A Villain Glass Houses The Grey What do you want from me? Nowhere To Go Limits THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND Just Pretend Dethrone

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disposable care sober exit(s) Courtney, Just Relax Push Rope sweet. clean. Outro

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Petrichor Die Hate Cry September Rain Sex Metal When She Told Me Ipecac Dear Goth

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Bonus Arena, Hull With Cybermen cheerleaders, hazmat suits and gigantic mosh pits, there’s a gloriously daft energy to the pop-metallers’ emotional, earth-shaking return

“I haven’t seen a mosh pit in 18 fucking months, so you better make it good,” barks Oli Sykes. This is the start of Bring Me the Horizon’s latest UK arena run, and the band’s frontman seems genuinely elated to be back in the thick of it.

Tonight’s Hull date – the first of the Post Human tour – is the Sheffield quintet’s first performance in the East Riding of Yorkshire in well over a decade. Much has changed during that time: they’ve evolved from rough-and-ready deathcore prospects to a slick, pop-metal hit factory who have received two Grammy nominations, scored consecutive UK No 1 albums – first 2019’s Amo, then last year’s Post Human: Survival Horror – and conquered America. The band’s live fare is daft and often teeters on the brink of cliche, but it’s simply impossible not to appreciate this spectacular collision of polished pop and searing metal.

Dear Diary dips into video game lore with clear Resident Evil references (“Dear diary, dog stopped barking, probably ’cause I ate his face / Tasty, itchy, TV say there’s no more human race”), as Sykes shuffles across the stage doing his best impression of the living dead. Whisper it, but even grizzled thrash veterans Slayer might appreciate these breakneck riffs.

In another gaming nod – this time to Konami classic Metal Gear Solid – Shadow Moses’ doomy textures and walls of jagged guitars have the arena’s foundations shaking with huge, swirling circle pits as thousands of voices scream back at the band. Brand new single DiE4u – which has more in common with Ed Sheeran than Slipknot – has only been out for 100 hours, but no matter: its live debut receives arena-wide, fists-in-the-air approval.

It’s not all fire and fury. A stripped-back take on Follow You, as keyboardist Jordan Fish and guitarist Lee Malia take centre stage with Sykes, has a teary-eyed audience hanging on the singer’s every word. In fact, he even encourages someone in the front row to hold off on the waterworks, lest they set him off. “You don’t know how much we’ve missed this,” he says.

What’s most impressive is the sheer spectacle. The stunning visuals and state-of-the-art strobe lights are enough of a sensory overload on their own, and for most of the night, Sykes is flanked by a pair of dancers. During Happy Song they’re costumed as part cheerleader, part Doctor Who Cybermen, complete with pompoms.

The pandemic references are frequent, but only ever as playful acknowledgments of the past 18 months. Marrying electronic elements with nu-metal’s bluster is the band’s calling card these days, and Parasite Eve is a powerful example that takes aim at Cummings et al: “When all the king’s sources and all the king’s friends / Don’t know their arses from their pathogens.” By this point, the dancers are wearing hazmat suits, as Sykes asks Hull: “Who got Covid?”

Bring Me the Horizon’s steady, assured ascension points to many more years in rock’s upper echelons. Even after eight studio releases, the band have an average age of just 34. And considering that Malia told this newspaper in 2013 that they were “never gonna sell out arenas”, those expectations need revising. Surely stadiums aren’t beyond the realms of possibility. Bring Me the Horizon are the country’s premier rock act, and the truth is they have been for a while.

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• DArkSide Play Video
• Empire (Let Them Sing) Play Video
• MANTRA Play Video
• Teardrops Play Video
• AmEN! Play Video
• Kool-Aid Play Video
• Shadow Moses Play Video
• Obey Play Video
• DiE4u Play Video
• Song played from tape Itch for the Cure (When Will We Be Free?) Play Video
• Kingslayer Play Video
• sTraNgeRs ( acoustic ) Play Video
• Diamonds Aren't Forever Play Video
• Song played from tape ScREam / ToP 10 STatUeS THAT CRIED BLood / Limousine / Bullet With My Names On / R.I.P. / N/A working title v34 ( snippets from 'Post Human: NeX GEn' album; audience vocals recorded for "N/A working title v34" ) Play Video
• Parasite Eve Play Video
• Antivist (with Noah Sebastian ) Play Video
• Drown Play Video
• Can You Feel My Heart Play Video
• Song played from tape Overture ( video montage of the band's history ) Play Video
• Doomed Play Video
• LosT Play Video
• Throne Play Video
• Song played from tape Steal Something. Play Video

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• Jan 10 2024 Bournemouth International Centre Bournemouth, England Start time: 9:20 PM 9:20 PM
• Jan 12 2024 Utilita Arena Birmingham Birmingham, England Start time: 9:15 PM 9:15 PM
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Billie Eilish announces Hit Me Hard And Soft tour UK dates

Two-time Oscar-winning singer Billie Eilish will be touring the world this year and next, and coming to venues in the UK next summer - including the so-far ill fated Co-Op Live in Manchester.

Arts and entertainment reporter @BethanyMinelle

Monday 29 April 2024 17:42, UK

Billie Eilish has announced a new tour and will be coming to the UK next summer.

The 22-year year old 's show is named after her latest album - Hit Me Hard And Soft - and will kick off in North America in September.

It will then head to Australia in February 2025, before travelling across Europe and arriving in the UK on 7 July when she will perform for two nights in Glasgow, at OVO Hydro.

Eilish will then play six nights at the O2 in London, and four nights at the new Co-Op Live arena in Manchester - a venue that has been beset with problems as it prepares to open to the public.

The singer will then play two gigs in Dublin, Ireland, at the 3Arena.

A vocal environmentalist, fans are being encouraged to take "sustainable transport" during the tour, which will also feature "eco-villages" and encourage plant-based food options.

The tour will partner with the plant-based food organisation Support + Feed - an initiative founded by Eilish's mother Maggie Baird - and environmental non-profit organisation REVERB.

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The concerts will also aim to reduce "greenhouse gas pollution, decreasing single-use plastic waste, supporting climate action", the promoters Live Nation said.

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR Tickets on sale May 3rd. Pre-sales in select markets April 30th-May 1st, including early access for @americanexpress Card Members. Pre-sale access does not guarantee tickets. Terms apply. Supply is limited. https://t.co/D172RG7UjO pic.twitter.com/dzZL4YvFMb — billie eilish (@billieeilish) April 29, 2024

Eilish's third studio album comes out on 17 May, a month after Taylor Swift 's much lauded album The Tortured Poets Department .

Like Swift, Eilish is encouraging fans to listen to the collection as a whole, saying on her website that the new body of work should be listened to chronologically as it "hits you hard and soft both lyrically and sonically, while bending genres and defying trends along the way".

She's not released any singles in advance, encouraging fans to listen "in one go".

The album cover features Eilish on her back under dark water with a white door open above her.

Eilish's last album was 2021's Happier Than Ever, and her debut record When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was released in 2019.

The youngest person ever to have won two Oscars, she took home the award for best original song Oscar gong for Barbie's What Was I Made For? in March, and won the same prize for James Bond's No Time To Die in 2022.

Tickets for Hit Me Hard And Soft go on general sale on Friday.

Billie Eilish's UK tour dates:

Mon 7 July, 2025 - Glasgow, UK - OVO Hydro

Tue 8 July, 2025 - Glasgow, UK - OVO Hydro

Thu 10 July, 2025 - London, UK - The O2

Fri 11 July, 2025 -London, UK - The O2

Sun 13 July, 2025 - London, UK - The O2

Mon 14 July, 2025 - London, UK - The O2

Wed 16 July, 2025 - London, UK - The O2

Thu 17 July, 2025 - London, UK - The O2

Sat 19 July, 2025 - Manchester, UK - Co-op Live

Sun 20 July, 2025 - Manchester, UK - Co-op Live

Tue 22 July, 2025 - Manchester, UK - Co-op Live

Wed 23 July, 2025 - Manchester, UK - Co-op Live

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The Secret Push That Could Ban TikTok

U.s. lawmakers have long worried that the chinese government could use the app to spread propaganda..

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From “The New York Times,” I’m Sabrina Tavernise. And this is “The Daily.”

[THEME MUSIC]

American lawmakers have tried for years to ban the video app TikTok over concerns that its ties to China pose a national security risk. Last week, they passed a law that might finally do it. Today, my colleague, Sapna Maheshwari, on the secret effort behind the law and what a ban would mean for the company’s 170 million American users.

It’s Tuesday, April 30.

So Sapna, tell me about this law that just passed that potentially bans the social media app TikTok. We’ve seen efforts in the past to rein in TikTok, but this one really seems like the most substantial yet.

It’s a huge deal. What this law really does is it puts the future of this hugely popular app with 170 million American users into question. TikTok has reshaped the way many people listen to music. It’s changed the way we cook. It’s made a whole different kind of celebrity.

But it’s never been able to shake these concerns around the fact that it has really close ties to China. It’s owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance. And lawmakers, for years, have been worried that the Chinese government could somehow use ByteDance and TikTok to get information on Americans or possibly spread propaganda.

President Trump tried to ban it in 2020. The State of Montana tried to ban this app last year. TikTok has largely survived those challenges, but this time it could actually be banned in the United States.

So let’s talk about this. Why did this effort succeed where the other ones failed?

So it’s an interesting story.

Here we go.

The committee will come to order.

And it really dates back to this hearing about a year ago that Congress had with Shou Chew, the CEO of TikTok.

Mr. Chew, you are here because the American people need the truth about the threat TikTok poses to our national and personal security.

Members of the committee, thank you for your time.

— TikTok has repeatedly said that it has addressed these national security concerns and that there’s no issue here. And you can hear that when Shou Chew testified.

Let me start by addressing a few misconceptions about ByteDance of which we are a subsidiary. ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government.

He’s saying American investors are behind ByteDance.

Now, TikTok itself is not available in mainland China. We’re headquartered in Los Angeles and in Singapore.

And I myself am Singaporean. I live in Singapore.

The bottom line is this — American data, stored on American soil, by an American company, overseen by American personnel.

And we are actually going above and beyond what American technology companies do to keep things safe.

And I look forward to your questions. Thank you very much.

And is Congress convinced by that?

Congress is not convinced by that.

ByteDance is a Chinese company?

Well, ByteDance owns many businesses that operates in China.

Is it or is it not a Chinese company?

Congressman, the way we look at it, it was founded by Chinese entrepreneurs.

No, no, no, no. I’m not asking how you look at it. Fact, is it a Chinese company or not? For example, Dell is a company —

It was this really fiery, five-hour hearing, where Republicans and Democrats asked really contentious questions.

We do not promote or remove content at the request of the Chinese government. Will you repeat —

The question is, are you percent certain that they cannot use your company to promote such messages?

It is our commitment to this committee and all our users that we will keep this free from any manipulation by any government.

OK. If you can’t say it 100 percent certain I take that as a no.

There’s this underlying sense of distrust around the company and its ties to China.

I will remind you that making false or misleading statements to Congress is a federal crime.

I understand. Again, you can go on our platform. You will find that content.

And it becomes clear through the hearing that, across the board, Republicans and Democrats largely feel the same way.

Mr. Chew, I got to hand it to you. You’ve actually done something that in the last three to four years has not happened except for the exception of maybe Vladimir Putin. You have unified Republicans and Democrats.

So within weeks of this hearing, this small group of lawmakers gets together. And they say, let’s come up with a law that works where all the other ones have failed and actually make TikTok answer to its Chinese connections once and for all.

So tell me about this small group of lawmakers. Who are they?

So it starts with Republicans. Among them is Steve Scalise, one of the most powerful Republicans in the House. And a small group sort of works together for a few months, but they realize that in order to really make this law work, they’re going to need Democrats. So they end up working through this House Committee that’s focused on China and competition. And this is where the bulk of the work on this bill takes place.

And just to note, this is a really small group. There’s less than 20 key players who are working on this. And all throughout, they are keeping this very, very secret.

And why exactly are they keeping it secret? What’s the point of that?

So this group really wanted to keep this out of the eyes of TikTok, which has a huge lobbying presence in DC, and has successfully worked to kill bills that targeted TikTok in the past. And what they’re really doing is looking at all of the past efforts to either force a sale or a ban of TikTok, and trying to work their way through why those plans didn’t succeed and what they can do differently.

But while the lawmakers are working on this bill, something big happens that kind of changes the politics around it. And that’s October 7.

Your social media feeds are unique to you, but could they be shaping how you view the Israel-Gaza War? The BBC’s —

As the war breaks out and people start getting information about it, a lot of people are getting information about the Israel-Hamas War on TikTok, especially young people.

Social media algorithms seem to be driving some users towards increasingly divisive posts —

And there’s this big messy argument spilling out into living rooms and all over the internet, and, of course on TikTok. And it’s getting very heated. For instance, there’s this moment in the fall where a bunch of TikTok users start sharing this old manifesto.

I read Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America.”

It’s wild, and everyone should read it.

Go read “A Letter to America.” Seriously, go read it.

That was actually written by Osama bin Laden, defending the 9/11 attacks and criticizing the United States’ support of Israel. TikTok users start trying to tie it to the modern day conflict.

Reading this letter, it becomes apparent to me that the actions of 9/11 were all just the buildup of our government failing other nations.

The way this letter is going viral right now is giving me the greatest sense of relief. Now it’s all coming to light because of Palestine.

And there’s these accusations that TikTok may be promoting one side of the conflict over the other. And a couple of researchers look at hashtags around Palestine, and they say that the data they pulled shows that TikTok is showing way more pro-Palestine videos and not so much for Israel. And this sets off huge alarm bells for this small group of lawmakers.

But isn’t that just a function of the fact that TikTok, at this point, is the public square in the United States for young people? I mean, this is what young people were talking about, and this is where they’re doing the talking.

TikTok has pushed back really forcefully against these accusations. They said that Gallup polls show that young people view Israel differently than older generations. They say that they’re not the ones influencing what people post, that the hashtags and the videos are a reflection of the user base and nothing that they’re doing to influence.

But for lawmakers, this doesn’t really make their concerns go away. Instead, this conflict shows them how TikTok could be used to spread propaganda. It made lawmakers feel that TikTok could be really dangerous when it comes to shaping the views of Americans on foreign policy, on US elections. And what it also does is, it provides this driving force to this group that’s drafting this bill. And they suddenly see that this might be a way to bring more people into their effort.

And so heading into November against this backdrop, they even bring in the White House and the Justice Department to help work on this bill. And with the White House, they want to make sure that this is a bill that the president will support. And they work with the Justice Department to shore up the language in the bill to help defend against court challenges.

Because the Justice Department, of course, would be the one that would have to defend the bill, right?

That’s exactly right. And so they’re trying to make it as rock solid as possible so that they can win in court when TikTok challenges this law. And so March rolls around, and they decide that it’s time to unveil this bill that they’ve been working on for close to a year.

The battle over TikTok on Capitol Hill is intensifying.

This morning, House lawmakers have agreed unanimously to move a bill to a full floor vote.

And TikTok is caught completely flat footed. They didn’t see this coming. And this is just what the group wanted. So TikTok has this army of lobbyists that’s suddenly scrambling. And they go into damage control mode. They start reaching out to members of Congress.

This app is so much more than just an app for dumb TikTok dances.

They fly a group of TikTok stars and small businesses to come to DC —

This is a life-changing apps.

— and lobby on the steps of the Capitol and meet with lawmakers.

Standing up here with all these amazing TikTokers behind me is a complete honor, and every single one of them would voice their opinion just like this. This is how we feel. This has to stop.

They set up interviews between these TikTok creators, as they’re known, and big TV shows and news programs. And they’re doing everything they can to fight against this bill before it goes any further. And then they decide to do something unusual, which is use TikTok itself to try and derail this bill.

How exactly do they do that?

So days after this bill is announced, a ton of TikTok users get a message when they open the TikTok app that basically says, call Congress and tell them not to ban TikTok.

Hmm. OK. So like, literally this window comes up and says, call Congress. Here you go.

Exactly. You can enter your zip code, and there’s a button that appears. And you can press it, and the call goes straight to your representative.

So offices are quickly overwhelmed by calls. And TikTok sent out this message to users on the same day that a House committee is going into vote on this bill and whether to move it forward. And so the stunt happens. They go into vote, and they come out, and it’s 50 to 0 in support of the bill.

One of the representatives who worked on the bill said that this stunt by TikTok turned a lot of no’s into yeses and yeses into, quote, “hell yeses.”

[LAUGHS]: so the whole episode sounds like it actually backfired, right? Like, TikTok’s stunt essentially just confirmed what was the deepest fears of lawmakers about this company, that the app could be used to influence American politics.

That’s definitely how a lot of lawmakers viewed it. And when this bill is brought to the full House a week later, it passes by an overwhelming majority. And weeks later, it passes in the Senate as part of a broader aid package. And on Wednesday, it’s signed into law by President Biden.

But now the question is, what does it mean? Like, how will this actually work? And how will it affect the tens of millions of Americans who use TikTok every day?

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We’ll be right back.

So Sapna, now that Biden has signed this bill, what does it actually mean in practice for TikTok? What does the law do?

So the law is really trying to push ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, to sell to a non-Chinese owner. And the company basically has nine months for this sale to happen. There’s an option for President Biden to add another three months to that clock. And if the company doesn’t find a buyer or refuses to be sold, it will be banned.

And what would a ban actually mean, Sapna? I mean, people would still have the app on their phones, right? So it wouldn’t disappear overnight.

Yeah, no one’s coming to pick up your phone and to forcibly delete this thing. What the law says is that app stores and web hosting services wouldn’t be allowed to carry TikTok anymore. So basically, it would kind of die a slow death over time, where it wouldn’t be updated and just kind of peter out.

So the bottom line here is that the clock has started on this potential sale, right? They have 12 months to find a buyer. So what are the obstacles here? I mean, it sounds pretty ferociously complicated.

There’s a ton of challenges here. And it’s a very messy choose-your-own adventure. So one of the first big questions is who could buy this?

ByteDance and TikTok are private. We don’t know their financials. But analysts estimate that it will cost tens of billions of dollars. That narrows the buying pool pretty quickly. And a lot of the companies that could afford to buy it, like Meta, the owner of Facebook, or Google, which owns YouTube, would probably be kicked out of the running because they are simply too big. Regulators would say, you already own these big apps. You can’t possibly add this to your stable.

There’d be a monopoly concern there.

Exactly. And then, there’s a lot of questions around how this would work, technically. ByteDance and TikTok are very much global organizations. You have the CEO in Singapore. They have huge operations in Ireland. They have this big workforce in the US. And of course, they do have engineers in China.

So how do you extract all those things, make it all work? It’s a very big international transaction.

And then there is the chance that the Chinese government blocks this sale and says, you cannot do this, ByteDance. We will not allow it.

So Sapna, how does that actually work, though, in terms of China? I mean, can China actually just ban the sale of this company? I mean, it is a private company after all, right?

Well, here’s one way it could work. The Chinese government could block the export of TikTok’s algorithm. And let me explain that in kind of plain English.

They could basically block the technology that fuels the TikTokiness of this app, the recommendations, the magic of it, why you see what you see when you’re looking at TikTok.

TikTokiness, is that an adjective?

That is now an adjective.

[LAUGHS]: Nice.

And there’s a chance that Beijing could say, hey, you can’t export this technology. That is proprietary. And if that happens, that suddenly makes TikTok way, way less valuable.

So the Chinese government could let the sale go through potentially, but as a kind of an empty shell, right? The thing that makes TikTok TikTok, the algorithm, wouldn’t be part of the company. So that probably isn’t very appealing for a potential buyer.

Exactly. And I mean, the role of the Chinese government here is really interesting. I’ve talked to experts who say, well, if the Chinese government interferes to try and block a sale of this app, doesn’t that underscore and prove all the concerns that have been expressed by American lawmakers?

If you’re worried about China being in control of this thing, well, that just confirmed your fears.

Exactly. And I mean, it’s an interesting thing that ByteDance and TikTok have to grapple with.

So bottom line here — selling TikTok is quite complicated, and perhaps not even possible for these reasons that you’re giving, right? I mean, not least of which because the Chinese government might not allow the algorithm to leave the country. And that’s not something that the US Congress has a lot of control over.

So is this law fundamentally just a ban, then?

That’s what TikTok is calling it. Right after this bill was signed into law on Wednesday —

Make no mistake, this is a ban, a ban on TikTok and a ban on you and your voice.

— Tiktok’s CEO made a TikTok — what else?— that explained the company’s position.

Because the freedom of expression on TikTok reflects the same American values that make the United States a beacon of freedom.

He actually argued that TikTok reflects American values.

TikTok gives everyday Americans a powerful way to be seen and heard. And that’s why so many people have made TikTok part of their daily lives.

And he said that this law infringes on the First Amendment free speech rights of Americans who love it and who use it every day.

The facts and the Constitution are on our side, and we expect to prevail again.

So it’s very clear that TikTok plans to challenge this law in court. And the court fight to follow will determine the fate of TikTok’s future in the US.

So is that First Amendment argument that the TikTok CEO is making here going to work?

Nobody wants to put money on that. I mean, the company is really approaching this with the idea that the First Amendment rights of Americans are being infringed on. But if you remember, the government has been working on this law. They’ve been anticipating those challenges. And they can justify an infringing of First Amendment rights in certain cases, including with national security concerns. And so it’ll be up to a judge on whether those concerns pass muster and justify this sale and even a potential ban of TikTok.

Got it. So TikTok will argue free speech, First Amendment. And the government will counter by saying, look, this is about China. This is about America’s national security interests.

That’s right. And the legal experts that I’ve spoken with say this is a really big and sticky area of the law, and it’s a huge case. And they really think that this will go to the Supreme Court, regardless of who wins in the first round of this.

So where does that leave the millions of Americans who use TikTok, and many of them, of course, who earn a living on the platform?

I mean, it’s really uncertain what happens now with the company, and the clock has started ticking. When I’ve looked at TikTok and looked at videos from users —

This is about the impending TikTok ban. And it just triggered me so much. It makes my blood boil, and I have to get this out there.

There’s a lot of shock —

The most success I’ve had has been here on TikTok, and now they’re trying to take it away.

This is so stupid!

— and anger.

You can’t ban apps! You can’t ban things from people!

People are confused.

Word on the street is that in the next 9 to 12 months, TikTok could be banned.

And they’re also caught a bit off guard, just because there have been these years of efforts to do something about TikTok. People on the app have been hearing about a TikTok ban, really, since 2020.

The government can take away a literal app on our phones, and we’re supposed to believe we’re free?

A few TikTokers have said, how can this be the thing that the government is pushing through so quickly?

Can we stop funding a genocide? No. Can we get free COVID tests? No. Can we stop killing the planet? No. Can we at least watch videos on an app of people doing fun things and learn about the world around us? No.

So there’s this sense of distrust and disappointment for many people who love this app.

We got rid of TikTok. You’re welcome. Protecting you from China. You know that phone was made in China. Ah!

And I think there’s also this question, too, around what about TikTok makes it so harmful? Even though it has increasingly become a place for news, there’s plenty of people who simply use this app for entertainment. And what they’re seeing out of Washington just doesn’t square with the reality they experience when they pull out their phones.

And I wonder, Sapna, I mean, just kind of stepping back for a second, let’s say this ban on TikTok succeeds. If it goes through, would Americans be better off?

It depends who you ask. For the users who love TikTok, if it actually disappeared, it would be the government taking away a place where maybe they make money, where they get their entertainment, where they figure out what to read or what to cook next. To free speech advocates, this would be dystopian, unheard of for the government to crack down on an app with such wide usage by Americans.

But for the American political class And the National security establishment, this is a necessary move, one that was years in the making, not something that was just come up with on the fly. And ultimately, it all comes down to China and this idea that you can’t have a social media app like this, a source of news like this, that is even at all at risk of being influenced by the Chinese government and our greatest adversaries.

Sapna, thank you.

Here’s what else you should know today. On Monday, in its latest high-profile showdown with pro-Palestinian protesters, Columbia University gave students until 2:00 PM to clear out from an encampment at the center of campus or face suspension. It appeared to be an effort to remove the encampment without relying on New York City Police, whose removal of a previous encampment there two weeks ago inspired similar protests on campuses across the country.

Free Palestine!

Hi, this is Sharon Otterman reporting for “The New York Times.”

00 PM deadline for protesters to clear out of the encampment at the center of Columbia University has come and gone, and there’s still quite a large contingent inside the encampment.

But Monday’s warning seemed only to galvanize the Columbia protesters and their supporters.

And hundreds of students and others from around the campus have come out to support them. They are currently walking around in a picket around the encampment.

Hundreds of students, standing for or five people deep, encircled the encampment in a show of solidarity. They were joined by members of the Columbia faculty.

There’s also dozens of faculty members, who are prepared to stand in lines in front of the main entrance to the encampment, in case Public Safety or the NYPD move in. But as of 2:00, there was no sign of that happening.

Then, on Monday evening, Columbia announced it had begun to suspend students who had failed to leave the encampment. It was unclear exactly how many students had been suspended.

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Today’s episode was produced by Will Reid, Rachelle Banja, and Rob Szypko. It was edited by Marc Georges and Liz O. Baylen, contains original music by Dan Powell and Marion Lozano, and was engineered by Chris Wood. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. Special thanks to Sharon Otterman.

That’s it for “The Daily.” I’m Sabrina Tavernise. See you tomorrow.

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Produced by Will Reid ,  Rachelle Bonja and Rob Szypko

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American lawmakers have tried for years to ban TikTok, concerned that the video app’s links to China pose a national security risk.

Sapna Maheshwari, a technology reporter for The Times, explains the behind-the-scenes push to rein in TikTok and discusses what a ban could mean for the app’s 170 million users in the United States.

On today’s episode

Sapna Maheshwari , who covers TikTok, technology and emerging media companies for The New York Times.

Background reading

A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to bulletproof a bill that could ban TikTok.

The TikTok law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing’s hostility .

Love, hate or fear it, TikTok has changed America .

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Special thanks to Sharon Otterman .

The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion Lozano, Corey Schreppel, Rob Szypko, Elisheba Ittoop, Mooj Zadie, Patricia Willens, Rowan Niemisto, Jody Becker, Rikki Novetsky, John Ketchum, Nina Feldman, Will Reid, Carlos Prieto, Ben Calhoun, Susan Lee, Lexie Diao, Mary Wilson, Alex Stern, Dan Farrell, Sophia Lanman, Shannon Lin, Diane Wong, Devon Taylor, Alyssa Moxley, Summer Thomad, Olivia Natt, Daniel Ramirez and Brendan Klinkenberg.

Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. Special thanks to Sam Dolnick, Paula Szuchman, Lisa Tobin, Larissa Anderson, Julia Simon, Sofia Milan, Mahima Chablani, Elizabeth Davis-Moorer, Jeffrey Miranda, Renan Borelli, Maddy Masiello, Isabella Anderson and Nina Lassam.

Sapna Maheshwari reports on TikTok, technology and emerging media companies. She has been a business reporter for more than a decade. Contact her at [email protected] . More about Sapna Maheshwari

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