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ByteDance is fighting back against the new law that could ban TikTok in the United States.

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit Tuesday (May 7) asking the court to review the constitutionality of a law that requires ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. business or have it shut down. “That law — the Protecting…

The law requiring TikTok to divest from its parent company, ByteDance ‘is simply not possible,’ the lawsuit said.

Joe Biden signed a bill giving ByteDance up to 19 January 2025 to sell TikTok to an approved buyer or risk being banned from the US

WASHINGTON >> TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance sued in U.S. federal court today seeking to block a law signed by President Joe Biden that would force the divestiture of the short video app used by 170 million Americans or…

The companies said they filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia arguing that the law violates the U.S. Constitution on a number of grounds.

The Chinese parent company says the ban, signed last month, violates the First Amendment rights of U.S. users

TikTok said Tuesday it has sued the Biden administration in a bid to block a new law that will force its China-based parent company ByteDance to sell within a year or face a total ban of the app in the US. Filed in a federal appeals court…

Chinese firm says divestiture ‘is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally’

Along with its parent company ByteDance, the social media app's owners said they filed a lawsuit in the US federal court seeking to block the law.

A woman who worked at ByteDance for 10 years said life is freer since leaving the grueling 996 culture in China.

UPDATED with exec comments. Blake Chandlee, President, Global Business Solutions at ByteDance / TikTok, kicked off the company’s NewFronts presentation in New York with a thank-you to advertisers and push-back against government critics.

While the potential ban of TikTok in the USA looms, another app owned by TikTok is making significant waves in the video editing industry. CapCut, TikTok's video editing app, is gradually gaining traction. CapCut, developed by ByteDance,…

TikTok’s former head of security compliance explains which systems ByteDance retained control of.

ByteDance reportedly says it would rather peace out of the US with TikTok than sell it to an American company.

Multiple US House aides say ByteDance's video editing app CapCut could also be subject to the same divest-or-ban requirement as TikTok — ByteDance's CapCut editing app made it easy to edit short-form video. The legislation that could ban…

One ex-TikTok worker threw doubt on the efficacy of TikTok's so-called US Data Security team, which was put into place to keep user data hidden away, Fortune reported.

Now that TikTok could realistically be banned in the US in a year from now, billionaires are lining up shout their intentions to buy TikTok from Chinese parent Bytedance if it agrees to sell.

A sale is unlikely as the algorithms powering the short-video app are key to ByteDance's overall operations, four sources told Reuters.