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Stephen Warwick

TikTok ban signed into law by President Biden — ByteDance now on the clock to sell, or 170 million Americans will lose the app

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The U.S. move to ban TikTok in the country unless it is sold by parent company ByteDance has come into force this week after President Biden signed into law the foreign aid package which contains provisions regarding the ownership of the vertical video phenomenon. 

President Biden has signed a package of four total bills including the ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’, which cites ByteDance’s ownership of TikTok as a national security problem. 

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