TikTok braces for a US ban as Senate passes divestment bill

Days after the House of Representative passed a bill to force parent ByteDance to sell its stake in TikTok, the Senate has passed the bill and sent it to Biden's desk. The US Senate has passed a bill that will ban TikTok in the country unless it cuts ties with its Chinese parent company ByteDance. Part of a wider national security package, the TikTok divestment legislation was first passed by the House of Representatives over the weekend. It was then sent to the Senate, which approved the bill yesterday (23 April) and it is expected to be signed into law…