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TikTok Planning to Sue President Trump Over Executive Ban

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*TikTok is reportedly planning to sue President Trump over the executive order he signed last week that bans the popular video sharing app in the United States. 

Sources tell NPR that TikTok plans to file the federal lawsuit on Tuesday, arguing that the executive ban is unconstitutional and pointless because Trump’s national security justifications are “baseless,” per Complex

“It’s based on pure speculation and conjecture,” the source said to NPR. “The order has no findings of fact, just reiterates rhetoric about China that has been kicking around.”

Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that blocks Americans and companies from making transactions with ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok. 

The ban goes into effect in 45 days, unless Microsoft or some other American company buys the app, Deadline reports.

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In a letter to congressional leaders, Trump said that TikTok’s “data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information — potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage.”

“TikTok also reportedly censors content that the Chinese Communist Party deems politically sensitive, such as content concerning protests in Hong Kong and China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities,” Trump wrote. “TikTok may also be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party.”

TikTok slammed Trump’s executive order as “undermining the rule of law.”

“We are shocked by the recent Executive Order, which was issued without any due process,” the company wrote in a statement Friday morning. “For nearly a year, we have sought to engage with the US government in good faith to provide a constructive solution to the concerns that have been expressed. What we encountered instead was that the Administration paid no attention to facts, dictated terms of an agreement without going through standard legal processes, and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses.”

Microsoft is in talks to buy TikTok, and said it would close negotiations by September 15.

Twitter is also reportedly interested in buying the app.

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