TikTok to launch court action over Donald Trump's crackdown
by Agence France-Presse from on (#577D6)
Chinese-owned app says it will challenge executive order that requires it to find American buyer or be shut down in the US
TikTok has said it will mount a court challenge to the Trump administration's crackdown on the popular Chinese-owned service, which Washington accuses of being a national security threat.
Amid tensions between the world's two biggest economies, Donald Trump signed an executive order on 6 August giving Americans 45 days to stop doing business with TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance - effectively setting a deadline for a potential pressured sale of the viral video sensation to a US company.
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