TikTok appeals to overturn the ban bill, saying the US Department of Justice misstated

News from this site on August 16. According to a Reuters report today (August 16), TikTok, a subsidiary of ByteDance, told the federal appeals court on Thursday local time that the relevant charges of the U.S. Department of Justice contained misstatements and urged the court to overturn " Ban bill requiring Byte to sell TikTok U.S. assets. TikTok emphasized in the complaint filed on Thursday that the content recommendation engine and user data used by TikTok are stored on cloud servers operated by Oracle in the United States, and content review decisions that affect American users are also made in the United States.

The U.S. Senate today passed a bill that may lead to TikTok being banned in the United States with an overwhelming majority of 79 votes in favor and 18 votes against. The bill requires ByteDance Inc. to sell TikTok or face a ban.

The bill, called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, will next be sent to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. Trump has said he will sign the bill.

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