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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Tamara Davison and William Mata

Who owns TikTok? Chinese-owned ByteDance files lawsuit against US government ban

TikTok has filed a lawsuit to try and block the US government’s law that would either ban the video-sharing app or force its parent company ByteDance to sell it.

The Senate’s ruling on April 23 gives the Chinese-owned business one year to sell its stake or face deletion from American application stores.

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