How TikTok’s Chinese parent company will rely on an American right to keep the app alive
by KIFI
KIFI— By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — TikTok’s expected legal challenge to a law signed Wednesday by President Joe Biden forcing the popular app’s parent company to spin off its US operations could be a seminal moment in First Amendment law in what is shaping up to be a year of defining cases. The new law gives TikTok’s parent company
Time—Senate Passes TikTok Bill to Force Chinese Parent Company to Sell or Face U.S. Ban. The legislation, which gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok and a possible three-month extension if a sale is in progress—now goes to President Biden for signature.
BBC News—TikTok: Chinese parent firm ByteDance says no plans to sell app. The comments from ByteDance come after reports it was exploring the potential sale of the platform.
KTVZ—Chinese owner denies it’s willing to sell TikTok as US ban looms. By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance said Thursday that it has no plans to sell the social media platform, its first official response on the fraught issue since President Joe Biden signed a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban of the wildly popular app. “Foreign media