Few lawmakers, and no Republicans, have active TikTok accounts

This spring, both chambers of Congress voted overwhelmingly to effectively ban the social media platform, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, if it isn’t sold by next year.

Notes

NPR verified TikTok accounts as of July 1 and did not include accounts that had not been active since June 1. Sens. Angus King, Bernie Sanders and Kyrsten Sinema (shown in yellow) are independents but caucused with the Democratic Party. Reps. Brian Higgins, Bill Johnson and Kevin McCarthy resigned before the TikTok vote and are not included in the graphic. Sen. Joe Manchin voted as a Democrat; he has since changed his party affiliation to independent. Nonvoting House seats are not shown.

Active TikTok accounts include Maxwell Alejandro (@repmaxwellfrost), Colin Allred (@colinallredtx), Cory Booker (@corybooker), Jamaal Bowman (@repbowman), Sherrod Brown (@sherrodbrown), Cori Bush (@repcori), Greg Casar (@repcasar), Bob Casey (@bobcaseyjr), Ruben Gallego (@rubengallegoaz), Robert Garcia (@robertgarcia), Steven Horsford (@stevenahorsford), Jeff Jackson (@jeffjacksonnc), Ro Khanna (@reprokhanna), Greg Landsman (@greglandsmanoh), Summer Lee (@repsummerlee), Christopher Murphy (@chrismurphyct), Wiley Nickel (@wileynickel), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aocinthehouse), Ilhan Omar (@ilhanmn), Bill Pascrell (@billpascrell), Scott Peters (@scottpeters4congress), Chellie Pingree (@chelliepingreemaine), Mark Pocan (@repmarkpocan), Ayanna Pressley (@reppressley), Jacky Rosen (@jackyrosenhq), Bernie Sanders (@bernie), Adam Schiff (@adamschiff), Elissa Slotkin (@teamslotkin), Melanie Stansbury (@repstansbury), Eric Swalwell (@swalwelleric) and Rashida Tlaib (@rashidatlaib).

Source: U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, NPR research

Credit: Hilary Fung, Clayton Kincade and Elena Moore/NPR