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TikTok could get a 270 day extension to make a deal

It’s a last ditch effort before the January 19th deadline.

By Lauren Feiner, a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. The Senator filed an amicus brief in late December — alongside Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) — with the Supreme Court in support of TikTok and its creators, arguing the law does not stand up to First Amendment scrutiny. “And its secondary justification of protecting users’ data from the Chinese government could not sustain the ban on its own and also overlooks that Congress did not consider whether less drastic mitigation measures could address those concerns.”

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