"TikTok Sale Deadline Looms Amid Free-Speech Concerns and Political Tensions"

The House China committee leaders stated that a forced sale of TikTok, labeled a national security risk, could occur before the November election, following the House passing a bill to block TikTok from U.S. app stores if its Chinese-linked parent company, Bytedance, does not divest within 165 days. Concerns about the Chinese government's potential access to user data have fueled the push for separation, with bipartisan support in the House and positive conversations in the Senate, where the bill now moves.