US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban

The measure is the latest in a series of moves in Washington to respond to US national security concerns about China.

The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of the short-video app, or face a ban, in the greatest threat to the app since the Trump administration.