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.
The new law gives ByteDance a year to sell TikTok to a US-based company, or the app will face a total ban from American app stores. TikTok's head of public policy for the Americas, Michael Beckerman, made it clear in that time, the company will fight the legislation in court.
If the new federal law goes into effect without being blocked, Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store will be required to stop offering TikTok for download or face financial penalties.
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