Washington- TikTok, the wildly popular social media app, and its parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Justice Department over a new law that requires it to cut ties with its China-based owner here a year, under penalty of being effectively banned from the United States. .
The suit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleges that the measure signed into law by President Biden last month is unconstitutional. The suit asks the court to block Attorney General Merrick Garland from enforcing the measure.
The suit names TikTok and ByteDance as plaintiffs and was filed against Garland.
THE the foreign aid plan passed by Congress Last month, a provision required the platform’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell its stake in TikTok within a year. If the company fails to meet the one-year deadline, TikTok would lose access to app stores and web hosting providers, depriving it of the roughly 170 million users in the United States.
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