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TikTok Plans Lawsuit to Block U.S.’s Divest-or-Ban Legislation If It Becomes Law

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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor A bill that would ban TikTok — unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divests its ownership stake — could soon become a U.S.

law. TikTok is gearing up a legal fight against the measure if that happens, with plans to challenge it in court on First Amendment grounds. “At the stage that the bill is signed, we will move to the courts for a legal challenge,” Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s head of public policy for the Americas, wrote in a memo to the company’s staff over the weekend.

Beckerman’s message to employees came in the wake of the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage Saturday by a 360-58 vote of a revised version of a previous TikTok ban bill it had passed.

House Speaker Mike Johnson issued the new proposal for the TikTok ban — tied to a package of foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan — that extends the deadline for ByteDance’s sale of TikTok from six to nine months, with an additional 90-day extension possible if sale negotiations are in process.

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