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International Business Times
International Business Times
Vidhya Ck

Federal Court To Hear Appeal From TikTok On US Law That Could Lead To Its Ban

TikTok argues the law violates the free speech clause in the First Amendment and that the company is being targeted based on propaganda. (Credit: AFP)

A three-judge federal court in the United States will hear TikTok's appeal Monday following the Biden administration's passing of a law requiring the video-sharing app to divest from its Chinese ownership or face a complete ban in the country.

In April, President Joe Biden signed legislation that requires ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, to either sell the platform or face a ban in the U.S. after American legislators raised concerns that China's Communist regime was using TikTok to collect data and spread misinformation among Americans.

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