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The US Senate on Tuesday approved a law aimed at forcing a change of ownership of popular video-sharing app TikTok. The Senate approved the bill with 79 votes in the 100-seat upper chamber. It will now head to President Joe Biden, who had made it known that he would sign it into law should it reach his desk. At that point China’s ByteDance group, which owns the app, will have up to one year to divest itself of TikTok. Were the service to remain in the possession of the group, the law would lead to TikTok being banned from US app stores. When asked about the vote, China’s Foreign Ministry refer…

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