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Mark Wilson

The TikTok ban just got closer – here's what the new US law means and what happens next

Two phones on a pink background showing TikTok.

TikTok now faces the very real threat of being banned in the US unless the app is sold by its owner ByteDance, after President Biden signed a new bill into law that has set the clock ticking.

The bill, which gives ByteDance nine months to divest itself of the app or see it blocked in the US, passed through the Senate yesterday, and was signed by President Biden today, April 24.

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