Two years after then-President Donald Trump said he would ban TikTok in the United States via an executive order, the short-form video platform is again under scrutiny in Washington. And the underlying issue remains largely the same: TikTok’s ties to China through its parent company, Bytedance. A growing number of US lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to take action against TikTok, citing apparent national security and data privacy concerns. The criticism comes from a Buzzfeed News report in June that said some US user data was repeatedly accessed from China. The report cited leaked audio recordings of dozens…