Bill to ban TikTok in US clears Congress

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WASHINGTON - The US Senate approved on April 23 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$95 billion (S$129 billion) foreign aid package, including military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which has now cleared Congress and is heading to President Joe Biden’s desk. US and other Western officials have voiced alarm over the popularity of TikTok with young people, alleging it allows Beijing to collect data and spy on users. It has 170 million...