San Francisco | TikTok and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, said on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) that they had filed a lawsuit against the US government challenging a law that would force a sale or ban of the app.
Last month, Washington passed legislation requiring TikTok to divest from its parent by January 19, 2025 or face a country-wide ban, citing concerns that the Chinese Communist Party could wield data on the app’s 170 million US users for espionage purposes, or proliferate propaganda via the platform.
