04/23/2024

TikTok Vows to Fight Its Ban

Here’s how the battle may unfurl

Congress got one step closer to banning TikTok over the U.S. this weekend, when the House of Representatives passed a bill calling for the app's Chinese parent company ByteDance to either sell it or face a nationwide ban. That bill now seems destined to pass the Senate and be signed into law by President Joe Biden.

"It's almost a lock at this point," said Bryan Cunningham, the executive director of UC Irvine's cybersecurity policy and research institute.

But the bill's legislative success does not mean that TikTok is going away anytime soon. The new law, if passed, will face legal challenges, antitrust hurdles and public backlash. Here's what lies ahead for the fate of the immensely popular video platform.

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