The social media platform TikTok\u00a0 challenged in US federal court claims by the US Department of Justice that the social network has ties to the Chinese government, asking the court to strike down a law requiring TikTok’s owner, the Chinese company Byte-Dance. ), to sell the platform’s assets in the US or face a ban.<\/p>\n
TikTok, which has sued to overturn the law, said the Justice Department has made factual errors in the case. The department\u2019s lawyers said last month that the app poses a national security risk by allowing the Chinese government to collect the data of Americans and covertly manipulate what content they see.<\/p>\n
The appeals court will hold oral arguments on the legal challenge on September 16, putting the issue of TikTok\u2019s fate into the final weeks of the November 5 presidential election.<\/p>\n
Republican presidential candidate\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0has joined TikTok and said in June he would never support a TikTok ban.<\/p>\n
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate has also joined TikTok in July and leaned in to social media as part of her campaign strategy.<\/p>\n
TikTok argued on Thursday that the law would strip the company of its free-speech rights, arguing against the Justice Department\u2019s claim that the short video app\u2019s content curation decisions are\u00a0\u201c<\/em><\/strong>the speech of a foreigner\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and not protected by the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n \u201cBy the government\u2019s logic, a U.S. newspaper that republishes the content of a foreign publication like Reuters, for example \u2013 would lack constitutional protection,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>the company said.<\/p>\n The law prohibits app stores like Apple and Google, from offering TikTok and bars internet hosting services from supporting TikTok unless it is divested by ByteDance.<\/p>\n Driven by worries among U.S. lawmakers that China could access data on Americans or spy on them with the app, Congress overwhelmingly passed the measure just weeks after it was introduced.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The social media platform TikTok\u00a0 challenged in US federal court claims by the US Department of Justice that the social network has ties to the Chinese government, asking the court to strike down a law requiring TikTok’s owner, the Chinese company Byte-Dance. ), to sell the platform’s assets in the US or face a ban. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":43774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,180,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-technology","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43776,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43767\/revisions\/43776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}