The news: The Biden Administration is supporting a bipartisan bill to force ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to sell the app.
If it doesn’t, the bill, passed by the US House of Representatives on Saturday (Sunday AEST) as part of an omnibus that also funds Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, would let authorities ban it.
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Nick Bonyhady is a technology writer for the Australian Financial Review, based in Sydney. He is a former technology editor, industrial relations and politics reporter at the Sydney Morning Herald and Age. Connect with Nick on Twitter. Email Nick at nick.bonyhady@afr.com