TikTok filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new bill requiring ByteDance—the company’s China-based owner—to sell the app or face a ban in the U.S., claiming the law likely violates the First Amendment while arguing a nine-month timeline for a possible sale is “simply not possible.”
The social media company said a timeline requiring China-based owner ByteDance to sell the app was ... [+]
TikTok said the law, signed by President Joe Biden last month, will force a shutdown of TikTok by Jan. 19, 2025, while “silencing the 170 million Americans who use the platform to communicate in ways that cannot be replicated elsewhere,” according to the lawsuit.
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