Despite overwhelming support in the House, a bipartisan effort to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban in the US is unlikely to pass in the Senate, according to tech policy and media experts.
In the most advanced effort yet to crack down on TikTok in the US, the House of Representatives today voted in a 352-65 vote to advance a bill that would require the video-sharing platform’s Chinese parent ByteDance to divest from the app within about six months or face a nationwide ban.
Republicans in the chamber, it would appear, were not deterred by former President Read full story ›
Source: The Drum