House approves bill to possibly ban TikTok in the US within a year
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The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that could ban TikTok in the country unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divests it within a year. The bill, which was included in a package of four bills being voted on, passed with a vote of 360-58. A similar bill with a shorter divestment period of six months had previously passed in the Republican-controlled House but stalled in the Democratic-controlled Senate. The Senate is expected to take up the package once it arrives, and US President Joe Biden has said he would sign it. Critics argue that the divestment period is still relatively short and may not address the core barrier to divestiture, which is China's export control law that could prevent the sale of TikTok's algorithm. TikTok has said it will fight the potential ban in court if necessary.
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