TikTok is waging a legal war against the U.S. government over a new law that could ban it nationwide by January 2025. Here’s everything you need to know.
TikTok has officially mounted what is sure to be a protracted legal challenge to a law signed by President Joe Biden in April that would ban the wildly popular app in the United States unless its China-based parent company ByteDance agrees to sell it to an American owner.
On Tuesday, the company filed a suit aimed at thwarting the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, a bill that would give ByteDance 270 days to divest its crown jewel or face the removal of TikTok from app stores nationwide. In the suit, TikTok cast the law as a targeted and unconstitutional ban on the platform—despite assurances from Biden and the White House that the goal is not to shut down TikTok, but to keep it operating here under new ownership.
