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TikTok turns to US Supreme Court in last-ditch bid to avert ban

BY REUTERS TikTok made a last-ditch effort on Monday to continue operating in the United States, asking the Supreme Court to temporarily block a law intended to force ByteDance, its China-based parent company, to divest the short-video app by Jan. 19 or face a ban. TikTok and ByteDance filed an emergency request to the justices for an injunction to halt the looming ban on the social media app used by about 170 million Americans while they appeal a lower court’s ruling that upheld the law. A group of U.S. users of the app filed a similar request on Monday as well. Congress passed the law in April. The Justice Department has said that as a Chinese company, TikTok poses “a […] The post TikTok turns to US Supreme Court in last-ditch bid to avert ban first appeared on 93.3 KFM.

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