Senate passes bill banning TikTok if parent company does not sell it
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/23/senate-passes-bill-banning-tiktok-will-parent-company-sell
Bill gives app owner, ByteDance, a year to divest, and while Biden is expected to sign it, the company plans to fight it
The Senate voted Tuesday to pass a bill that will either ban TikTok or force a sale of the short-form video app, giving its China-based parent company ByteDance up to one year to divest its crown jewel before facing deletion from US app stores.