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TikTok creators sue U.S. government, say divestiture law violates First Amendment

Eight TikTok creators are suing the U.S. government to block the divest-or-ban law, arguing that it violates the First Amendment.

In the filing shared by attorney Davis Wright Tremaine, the group says that the law, which gives TikTok parent ByteDance nine months to find a buyer for the app, "undermines the nation's founding principles and free marketplace of ideas." The law "promises to shutter a discrete medium of communication that has become part of American life, prohibiting Petitioners from creating and disseminating expressive material with their chosen editor and publisher," the lawsuit says. TikTok itself sued the United States last week over the legislation, also invoking a free speech argument in its suit.

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