A bipartisan coalition in the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would force the sale of the social media and video app TikTok or face being banned in the United States.
The bill calls for Chinese tech company ByteDance to divest TikTok or the popular social video app will effectively be banned in the U.S. It passed overwhelmingly, 352-65.
House passes bill that could lead to a TikTok ban; fight shifts to the Senate https://t.co/gxJ8LDX82w
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The legislation, dubbed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, was introduced March 5 by Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Two days later, House members on the Energy and Commerce Committee voted unanimously to approve the bill, which refers to TikTok as a threat to…
