The US Senate voted in favor of legislation that could ban TikTok in the country if ByteDance doesn’t divest its popular app.
The US Senate voted in favor of legislation that could ban TikTok in the country if ByteDance doesn’t divest its popular app over the next nine months to a year. This bill comes amid widespread worries that China could access Americans’ data or surveil them with the app.
While the US House of Representatives has already passed the bill, it’s up to President Joe Biden to sign this law, which appears he’ll do this Wednesday.
Senator Marco Rubio said: “For years, we’ve allowed the Chinese Communist party to control one of the most popular apps in America that was dangerously shortsighted. A new law is going to require its Chinese owner to sell the app.
