TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says the company will challenge a recently-signed US law requiring the platform be sold off by Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a block in the US, and warned that the true goal of legislators is not to force a change of ownership but simply to ban access to the service outright.
After an extended period of wrangling, the US Congress passed a bill calling for TikTok's sale or block in March, sending it to the Senate, which voted to pass the bill on April 22. One day later, US President Joe Biden signed the bill into law.
