US Senate passes bill to force TikTok divestment or ban
The US Senate has voted late to send legislation to President Joe Biden that would require Chinese owner ByteDance to divest the popular short video app’s US assets within about nine months or face a ban.
The measure, passed by the US House of Representatives on Saturday, has been driven by concerns that China could access Americans’ data or surveil them with the app and Biden has said he will sign it into law.