TikTok to launch legal action against Trump over ban

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TikTok to launch legal action against Trump over ban

By Naveel Krishant

Monday 24/08/2020

Trump's executive order prohibits transactions with TikTok's owner ByteDance from mid-September. [Image: forbes]

Chinese video app TikTok is set to launch legal action to challenge a ban imposed by US President Donald Trump.

Trump's executive order prohibits transactions with TikTok's owner ByteDance from mid-September.

Officials in Washington are concerned that the company could pass data on American users to the Chinese government, something ByteDance has denied doing.

The short video-sharing app has 80 million active US users.

TikTok says it has tried to engage with Mr Trump's administration for nearly a year but has encountered a lack of due process and an administration that pays "no attention to facts".

[Source: BBC]

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