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US House Passes Bill to Force ByteDance to Divest TikTok or Face Ban

TikTok is facing new pressures.
The bill passed 352-65, with bipartisan support, but it faces a more uncertain path in the Senate. (Shutterstock)

The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of the short-video app used by about 170 million Americans or face a ban.

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