US President Joe Biden Signs Bill To Ban TikTok
Joe Biden has signed a bill banning the Chinese video sharing app TikTok in the country unless the app’s parent company, ByteDance, sells it to any company in US with a year, the bill is now a law
Joy Kalu 
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has signed into law a bill seeking to ban social media app, TikTok.
The bill which was earlier passed by the U.S. Congress requires TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app within nine months, or face a ban in the U.S.
Biden signed the bill attached to the $95 billion foreign aid package Congress approved this week that will deliver more funding to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, TikTok has vowed to take legal action against the new law.
TikTok spokesperson Alex Haurek called the law “unconstitutional” in a statement and vowed to “challenge it in court.”
TikTok won a legal battle against former President Donald Trump’s attempt in 2020 to force the sale of TikTok via an executive order that would prohibit any U.S.-based transactions with ByteDance if the company did not divest the app within 45 days.
The U.S. officials and the government believe that TikTok can be used to influence the nation's youth and app users and hence, also the U.S. 20204 election, as the app's core management lies with the Chinese government.
Many lawmakers are also of the belief that TikTok poses a national security risk as there is a possibility that China may compel the app owners to sell the data of 170 million U.S. users to the government.
The U.S. is not the first nation to move to ban TikTik. In 2020, India had also banned TikTok along with several other Chinese apps after clashes in the Galwan Valley with the Chinese military.
