The U.S. Senate passed, 79-18, the TikTok divest-or-ban bill included in a foreign aid package on Tuesday.
The bill will give ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, a year to sell the App, or the app will be banned from mobile app stores and web-hosting services.
The House version of the foreign aid package was passed on Saturday. With the Senate’s blessing, the bill now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk. The president has said he would sign it into law.
The debate around the TikTok bill was about national security and free speech.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), chair of the Select Intelligence Committee, highlighted the concern that TikTok was “operating at the direction of a foreign adversary.”…
