United Kingdom, March 14 -- TikTok could be banned in the United States after the House of Representatives voted to pass a landmark bill.

The bill - which was passed overwhelmingly this week - would give the social media platform's Chinese parent company ByteDance six months to either sell its controlling stake or face being blocked in North America.

If the bill is to become law, it needs to clear the Senate and then be signed by the president.

TikTok's chief executive Shou Zi Chew has described the vote - which was a landslide, with 352 Congress members in favour and just 65 against - as "disappointing".

He insitsed the social media platform will do "all we can" to protect its future, adding that TikTok has put money into keeping dat...