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TikTok confirms it offered US government a 'kill switch'
The platform made the disclosure as part of its legal challenge against a law forcing its sale in the US.
Legislation signed in April by President Joe Biden gives ByteDance until January next year to divest TikTok's US assets or face a ban. TikTok denies that it shares foreign users' data with China and called the legislation an "unconstitutional ban" and affront to the US right to free speech. It insists that US data does not leave the country, and is overseen by American company Oracle, in a deal which is called Project Texas.
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