US passes bill to ban TikTok, Senate to decide if Bytedance gets a chance

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US passes bill to ban TikTok, Senate to decide if Bytedance gets a chance
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The fate of TikTok hangs in the balance as a bill to ban the platform passes the House, now awaiting the Senate's decision.

by the legislators of the House of Representatives – the lower house of the US Congress – but the Senate will decide the fate of the popular and infamous short-form video content platform.

It might meet a similar fate as the RESTRICT Act, which was an attempt to ban TikTok in the Senate last year. In the end, it failed to move through the Senate. “Frankly, there are a lot of people on TikTok that love it. There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it,”Trump. “There’s a lot of good and there’s a lot of bad with TikTok. But the thing I don’t like is that without TikTok you’re going to make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media.”

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