Social media platform TikTok could become the frontline of a "digital cold war" that splits the internet between the West and the rest of the world, experts say.
The short-form video app is one of the fastest growing platforms in the world, with more than 170 million users in the US and 8.5 million in Australia.
But, citing national security concerns, the US House of Representatives in March passed a bill giving TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, six months to divest the app and sell the asset to a company not based in China.
