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Officials insist China-based owner ByteDance must separate from its short video
app in the US because it is a threat to national security and citizens’ data
The US justice department has asked an appeals court to reject legal challenges
to a law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok’s US assets
by 19 January or face a ban.
TikTok, parent company ByteDance and a group of TikTok creators have filed suits
seeking to block the law, which could ban the app used by 170 million Americans.
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