TikTok plans to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court
This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.WASHINGTON, USA – A US federal appeals court on Friday, December 6, upheld a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video appThe decision is a major win for the Justice Department and opponents of the Chinese-owned app and a devastating blow to TikTok parent ByteDance.
The ruling comes amid growing trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies after the administration of President Joe Biden placed new restrictions on China’s chip industry and Beijing responded by imposing an outright ban on exports of gallium, germanium and antimony to the United States.
In its analysis, the court said China, through its relationship with TikTok parent ByteDance, threatened to distort US speech through TikTok and “manipulate public discourse.” Friday’s decision upholds the law giving the US government sweeping powers to ban other foreign-owned apps that could raise concerns about collection of Americans’ data — and could open the door to a future crackdown on many other foreign owned apps. In 2020, Trump also tried to ban Tencent-owned WeChat, but was blocked by the courts.If banned, TikTok advertisers would seek new social media venues to buy ads. As a result, shares of Meta Platforms META.
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