WASHINGTON – The popular social media app TikTok has sued the U.S. Government in order to block the law forcing TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to a non-Chinese buyer by January 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban.
TikTok and ByteDance have accused the law of being unconstitutional due to it stifling their American users’ free speech.
TikTok has continuously denied all allegations of providing US data to the Chinese government. The platform even stated that they host their US data on servers operated by Oracle, a US-based company.
If ByteDance does not sell, app stores operated by Apple, Alphabet’s Google, and others could not legally offer TikTok or provide web hosting services to ByteDance-controlled applications or TikTok’s website.
TikTok states almost 7,000 US citizens work for the company, and roughly 150 million Americans use the app.
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