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TikTok Ready to Fight US Ban With 170 Million Users at Stake

In an staff memo, the Byte Dance-owned app said it would challenge a law calling for its shut-down or sale, should Congress pass it.
TikTok is facing new pressures.
TikTok is facing new pressures. (Shutterstock)

Four years ago, when the Trump administration threatened to ban TikTok in the US, its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd. worked out a preliminary deal to sell the short video app’s business. Not this time.

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