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TikTok owner ByteDance files lawsuit against US law forcing app’s sale

ByteDance warns that a new US law could force the shutdown of its flagship video platform TikTok [Damian Dovarganes/AP]

ByteDance, the owner of the social media platform TikTok, has filed a lawsuit against the United States government in an effort to block a law that would force it to divest from its US assets.

On Tuesday, lawyers for ByteDance filed the complaint in the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, arguing the law was “obviously unconstitutional”.

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