The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner or be banned from the United States.
The lawmakers voted 352 in favor of the proposed law and 65 against it, a rare moment of bipartisan unity in politically divided Washington.
U.S. lawmakers and intelligence officials worry the Chinese government could use TikTok to access personal data from its millions of users and use algorithms to show them videos that could influence their views, including in the coming presidential election.
Testifying before Congress a year ago, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew denied that the Chinese government controls the app and pushed back against suggestions that China accesses U.S. user data.
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