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US House votes to ban TikTok if China ties not severed
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There's not much that politicians in the US agree on these days, but it seems there is an unusual level of consensus over the threat posed by the video-sharing app TikTok.
Earlier this morning, the US House of Representatives voted in favour of a bipartisan bill that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to sever ties with China .. or become unavailable in the US.
The bill's sponsors said in a statement that apps "like TikTok that are controlled by foreign adversaries pose an unacceptable risk to US national security".
It will next move to the Senate, where the bill's future is uncertain.
CNN's Clare Duffy spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss from New York City.