TikTok Sues US Over Divest-or-Ban Law, Alleging It Is Unconstitutional

As expected, TikTok filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the U.S.’s new law that would force Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the app — or face a nationwide ban. TikTok and ByteDance filed the lawsuit Tuesday (May 7) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. “Congress has taken the unprecedented step of expressly singling out and banning TikTok: a vibrant online forum for protected speech and expression used by 170 million Americans to create, share, …