(Update) The U.S. House of Representatives passed the "TikTok Act", which still needs approval from the Senate and the President before it takes effect.

#TikTok issued a statement stating: "The process was not transparent and the bill was forced through because it was a ban. We hope the Senate will carefully consider the facts, Listen to your constituents and recognize the impact this will have on the economy, the 7 million small businesses and the 170 million Americans who use our services."

News from this site on March 13, local On the morning of the 13th (today), the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bill requiring ByteDance to divest control of its short video platform TikTok. It is reported that the bill still needs two steps to become law: It will be discussed and voted on in the U.S. Senate, and then submitted to the President for approval after passing it.

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March 6: A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers proposed a legislative proposal on Tuesday, giving ByteDance 165 days Spin off the popular short video application TikTok, otherwise app stores such as Apple and Google will be forced to stop providing web hosting services to TikTok, and TikTok will not be able to do business with other American companies.

A TikTok spokesperson responded: “No matter how it tries to hide it, this bill is an outright ban on TikTok.

This legislation would trample on the First Amendment rights of 170 million Americans, and deprive 5 million small businesses of the platform they rely on to develop and create jobs."

March 7: TikTok issued a pop-up reminder for users in the United States: directing users to call members of Congress , demanding the withdrawal of this motion. It is reported that the pop-up window can be closed or swiped away with a button instead of being forced to boot.

March 10: Some media said that former Blizzard CEO Kotick contacted Zhang Yiming and considered acquiring TikTok for US$100 billion, and OpenAI CEO Altman may participate in the transaction. In response, Bytedance responded that the aforementioned information was untrue.

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