TikTok ban looms with Biden poised to start 270-day countdown

The US Senate on Tuesday approved legislation requiring the wildly popular social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market. The measure was part of a US$95bil foreign aid package, including military assistance to Ukraine, which has now cleared Congress and heads to President Joe Biden's desk. — AFP

For TikTok, the clock has started running in its existential fight to avoid a US ban.

Legislation requiring the social media app’s Chinese owners to divest sailed through Congress, capped by Senate passage late April 23 as part of a larger foreign-aid package. US President Joe Biden plans to sign it April 24 – beginning a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition of the popular video-sharing platform.