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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, to be signed into law by 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 — set to be signed into law Wednesday by President Biden — that would ban the app unless its Chinese parent company divests its ownership stake. In a video on TikTok, CEO Shou Zi Chew responded to the Senate’s passage of the bill Tuesday, as part of a package of foreign aid. An attempt by the Trump administration to force ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban also was found unconstitutional by federal courts on First Amendment grounds.
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