House passes bill that would ban TikTok if its Chinese owners don&;#039;t sell the popular app
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House passes bill that would ban TikTok if its Chinese owners don&;#039;t sell the popular app

The House on Wednesday passed bipartisan legislation to force TikTok's Chinese parent company to sell the wildly popular social media platform or face a ban in the U.S. If enacted‚ the bill would give ByteDance six months to divest from TikTok before app stores would start prohibiting access. The final vote was 352-65‚ surpassing the two-thirds majority threshold needed to pass the legislation under a suspension of the rules. The bill passed despite an eleventh-hour lobbying push from...