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The US Passes the Anti-TikTok Bill

The US Passes the Anti-TikTok Bill

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April 25, 202447m 42s

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The thing I said probably wouldn't happened did happen -- the US Senate voted in favor of a bill that will force the Chinese company ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok or face a US-wide ban. But how the heck did we get here, and how does a political megadonor play into it?

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