The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill forcing TikTok to separate from the Chinese company that owns it under penalty of being banned in the United States.
The legislation is the biggest threat yet to the app, which has gained popularity around the world, and has raised concerns among governments and security officials about its Chinese ownership and potential dependency on the Communist Party in Beijing.
The fate of the bill remains unknown in the Senate, where senior figures oppose such drastic action against an app that has about 170 million subscribers in the United States. President Joe Biden must sign the bill, officially called "Protecting Americans from Censored Adversarial Foreign Applications," into law.
Source (Al-Khaleej Emirati Newspaper, Edited)
