TikTok files legal challenge against app ban executive order

TikTok's long-awaited legal challenge against a presidential executive order that would effectively ban the app in the United States has arrived, with the video sharing service suing to "protect our rights, and the rights of our community and employees."

A lawsuit from TikTok has been in development since not long after President Donald Trump issued an executive order that would ban transactions with TikTok and WeChat in the United States after 45 days. As previously anticipated, the lawsuit has finally been filed against the order.The press release announcing the filing explains the complaint as being one of due process, that the Trump Administration "ignored our extensive efforts to address its concerns, which we conducted fully and in good faith even as we disagreed with the concerns themselves."

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