President Joe Biden signed a bill Wednesday forcing TikTok to find a new owner within a year or face a ban — setting the course for what’s likely to be a drawn-out legal battle with potential political costs for the president.
President Joe Biden signed a hard-fought bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new U.S. aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia, notching a rare bipartisan victory for the president as he seeks reelection and ending months of wrangling with Republicans in Congress.
The U.S. Senate voted by a wide margin late Tuesday in favor of legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States if its owner, the Chinese tech firm ByteDance, fails to divest the popular short video app over the next nine months to a year.
The bill will now be handed over to US President Joe Biden, who has said he will sign it into law as soon as it reaches his desk. TikTok has told the BBC that it did not have an immediate response to the move.
U.S. President Joe Biden signed a law that may lead to the ban of TikTok in the country. However ... It is not an outright ban. Instead, the new legislation will allow TikTok to stay available to U.S.
Key Takeaways U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Wednesday that requires ByteDance to divest TikTok within a year through a forced sale or face a ban of the app in the U.S., based on national security concerns.
President Joe Biden signed a bill Wednesday that will force TikTok's Chinese parent company to divest from its U.S. operations or face a nationwide ban. Why it matters: The move potentially sets up a protracted legal fight over the fate of the popular social media app,
President Joe Biden signed the TikTok bill into law on Wednesday morning, officially starting the 270-day clock for TikTok’s owner, China-based Bytedance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in American app stores.
President Joe Biden signed into law measures to provide aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, as well as force the divestiture of social media platform TikTok from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a national ban.
Democrats are bracing for a backlash from young voters over the potential ban of TikTok on U.S. phones, something made more likely by the Chinese government’s opposition to ByteDance selling off one of the most sophisticated algorithms in the world.
President Biden has signed the foreign aid bill that also gives the Chinese company ByteDance nine to 12 months to sell TikTok to an American company, or the app will be banned in the U.S.
President Joe Biden signed a bill on Wednesday that could ban TikTok from operating within the United States as early as next year. Notably, Biden’s Tuesday night statement responding to the Senate vote did not mention TikTok at all,
Do the lawmakers who support it call it a “TikTok ban” in shorthand as well? NO! Lawmakers go to great pains to insist that it’s not a “ban,” and that they would never want to ban anything beloved by hundreds of millions of eligible voters in an election year.
President Biden on Wednesday signed the $95 billion emergency foreign aid package, calling out “MAGA Republicans” for the holdup to send aid to Ukraine. “It’s a good day for America, it’s a good day for Europe,
President Joe Biden signed a massive $95 million military aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan on Tuesday night. The package was signed against the backdrop of mass protests on college campuses,
President Biden hailed Wednesday as “a good day for world peace” after signing into law a $95 billion foreign aid package that mostly finances Ukraine’s defense against Russia — while not directly mentioning that the bill also will either ban TikTok or force a Chinese company to divest from the popular social media platform.
Recorded earlier President Biden will deliver remarks related to the aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other foreign priorities Wednesday morning. The president has said he will sign the legislation.
The Biden administration has taken action against TikTok. On April 24, 2024, President Joe Biden signed a law to ban the China-based social media app under parent company ByteDance in the U.S. if it’s not sold within a year,
TikTok vowed a court challenge Wednesday to a new law signed by President Joe Biden that could result in the popular video streaming app being banned in the United States. The new law requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company,
President Joe Biden’s campaign says it will continue to use its account on TikTok even after he signed legislation into law that forces its parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., to sell its stake or face a ban in US app stores.
President Joe Biden signed a bill Wednesday forcing TikTok to find a new owner within a year or face a ban — setting the course for what’s likely to be a drawn-out legal battle with potential political costs for the president.
President Joe Biden signed into law on Wednesday a $95 billion war aid measure that includes assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and that also has a
President Biden has signed a bill that would ban TikTok if its owner, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it within a year. The bill includes aid for Ukraine and Israel. U.S. Senators passed the bill 79-18 on late Tuesday after the House passed it with overwhelming majority over the weekend.
President Joe Biden signed into law into law Thursday a $95 billion war aid measure that includes aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan that also includes a