US Senate passes bill to force TikTok divestment within nine months or face ban

US Senate passes bill to force TikTok divestment within nine months or face ban

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the office of TikTok after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app or face a ban, in Culver City, California, March 13, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

The US Senate voted late Tuesday by a wide margin to send legislation to President Joe Biden that would require Chinese owner ByteDance to divest TikTok’s US operations within about nine months or face a ban.