US President Joe Biden signs bill to ban TikTok

A bill that bans the social media app TikTok has been signed into law by US President Joe Biden. 

The US Congress previously enacted a law requiring TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, located in China, to sell the app within nine months or risk being banned from the country. 

On Wednesday, Biden signed the bill that was a part of the $95 billion foreign aid package that Congress had approved this week, which will increase funding to Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine. 

TikTok has pledged to challenge the new law in court while this is happening. 

In a statement, TikTok representative Alex Haurek declared the rule “unconstitutional” and promised to “challenge it in court.” 

In 2020, TikTok successfully fought off an effort by former President Donald Trump to force the sale of the company through an executive order that forbade any transactions with ByteDance located in the United States if the company did not sell the app within 45 days.

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