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House votes on effort to ban or sell TikTok

The U.S. House has voted overwhelmingly to approve a bipartisan bill that would require ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to sell the social media app or face a ban on all U.S. devices. Its passage in the Senate is less certain.

Here& Now‘s Scott Tong talks with Rebecca Kern, tech policy reporter for Politico.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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