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TikTok Will File Court Challenge to U.S. Divest-or-Ban Law, CEO Says: ‘The Facts and the Constitution Are on Our Side’
TikTok said it will sue to block U.S. legislation, signed into law by President Biden, banning the app unless parent ByteDance divests its ownership.
As expected, TikTok said it will file a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S.’s legislation — signed into law Wednesday by President Biden — that will ban the app unless its Chinese parent company divests its ownership stake. That was revised with the extended divestiture deadline, and House Speaker Mike Johnson put it on a fast-track by bundling it with the emergency foreign-aid legislation to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan (adding the TikTok ban to win support from GOP politicians). The concern among many U.S. lawmakers — both Democrats and Republicans — is that because ByteDance is a Chinese company, the People’s Republic of China could seek to use TikTok to spy on Americans or force the app to spread pro-China propaganda.
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