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TikTok and parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit late Friday against the ***** administration to try to fend off a ban on new downloads of the app set to take effect Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported.
TikTok says in the lawsuit that the ***** administration’s decision to ban new downloads of the app, announced Friday, violates free speech protections. The administration, which includes the Commerce Department, “took this extraordinary action of prohibiting a popular communication and information-sharing platform without affording its owners … due process of law, and for political reasons rather than because of any ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to the United States,” according to the suit.
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