06:43 AM EDT, 04/24/2024 (MT Newswires) -- The US Senate voted Tuesday to approve a bill that would bar TikTok from operating in the US unless its Chinese owner sells the company over the next year, media outlets reported.

The US House of Representatives approved the bill Saturday and President Joe Biden has said he will sign it into law on Wednesday.

US officials worry that the short-video sharing app popular among Generation Z could be used by the Chinese authorities to access Americans' private information.

TikTok is reportedly set to challenge any law barring it based on America's formidable freedom of speech laws, media outlets reported.

Neither TikTok nor its parent company Bytedance immediately replied to MT Newswires' requests for comment.