The measure was included in a foreign aid package providing support to Ukraine and Israel. TikTok has vowed to challenge the law in federal court.
President Biden has signed a law that gives ByteDance up to a year to fully divest from TikTok, or face a nationwide ban.
Despite concerns in Washington, TikTok has soared. It has become the trendsetter in the world of short-form video and is used by 170 million Americans, which is about half of the country. It is where one-third of young people get their news, TikTok has vowed to take the Biden administration to court, claiming the law would suppress the free speech of millions of Americans.
In particular, ByteDance owns the engine of TikTok, its hyper-personalized algorithm that pulls people in and keeps them highly engaged with their feed.
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