US and other Western officials voiced alarm over the popularity of TikTok with young people, alleging that it allows Beijing to spy on users.
The US House of Representatives approved a bill Saturday that would force the wildly popular social media app TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market.
The ultimatum to the social media app was included in a broader text that provides aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Under the bill, ByteDance would have to sell the app within a year or be excluded from Apple and Google's app stores in the United States.
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