A new law passed this week would ban TikTok in the United States unless ByteDance, its Chinese owner, sells the popular video app.
National security is at the heart of bipartisan concerns in Washington motivating the law. Lawmakers say they're worried the Chinese government could lean on ByteDance in order to use TikTok to suck up Americans' data, surveil them, and spread false and misleading claims to U.S. voters.
