After weeks of it being bogged down, the US Senate late Tuesday approved legislation that could lead to an eventual ban of TikTok, though the popular social media platform and others have vowed to fight the measure in court.
The law has been introduced because of concerns TikTok might share user data with the Chinese government - claims it has always denied. "We are confident and we will keep fighting for your rights in the courts,
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing’s hostility.
A bill that could ban TikTok has passed both chambers of Congress and now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk, where it will likely be signed into law. The bill, if signed, would require TikTok’s Chinese parent company,
The U.S. Senate passed the TikTok bill on Tuesday evening in a vote of 79-18. The bill, which bans TikTok unless Bytedance sells it to a U.S. owner, flew through Congress this week as part of a broader package to provide $90 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine,
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The Senate approved a measure that will require ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban, in a vote of 79 to 18. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act next goes to President Biden.
This week President Biden signed a new law that gives TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance nine months to sell the app, with a possible three-month extension if a sale is in progress. “There’s certainly time on the books,
A TikTok ban is all but signed into law, as the United States Senate voted yesterday to pass a bill banning the video-sharing app. In a vote of 79-18, the upper chamber of Congress passed a bill that bundled foreign aid to Israel,
TikTok is facing unprecedented pressure over its ownership and business model after the US moved ever closer to passing legislation that would force its China-based parent company to sell the platform or be banned.
TikTok is a step closer to facing a nationwide ban in the US. The bill that could ban the Chinese-origin social media app has passed the Senate. It is almost certainly to become law as President Joe Biden said he would sign the legislation.