In the Capitol, old politicians vote to ban Tiktok if the Chinese owner doesn’t sell. At the same time, young people are protesting against the decision. Could this dispute have an impact on the election?
It’s probably safe to assume that not all of America’s important politicians are on Tiktok all the time. This could have something to do with her age. The average age in the US House of Representatives is 58 years and that in the Senate is 65 years. And Joe Biden is 81, Donald Trump is only three and a half years younger. Many of them grew up in a time when, at best, color television had been invented – and the World Wide Web, with its endless bizarreness, was a utopia like flying to Mars.