President Biden has enacted legislation requiring TikTok's parent company ByteDance to sell its US operations within a year or face a national ban.

Congress has mandated that TikTok must disentangle itself from ByteDance or be removed from app stores in response to national security concerns.

TikTok intends to legally contest the law, citing a violation of First Amendment rights, despite past judicial blocks on similar actions.

The US government must present convincing evidence that TikTok is a national security threat, amid Chinese government resistance to a forced sale.

In the event that ByteDance does not comply with the divestiture deadline, TikTok could be banned in the US, shaking up the social media landscape.

Users may turn to other platforms like Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, Triller, and Byte for short-video content in TikTok's absence.