WASHINGTON: A US federal appeals court docket on Friday (Dec 6) upheld a regulation requiring Chinese language-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year or face a ban.
The ruling may very well be appealed to the Supreme Courtroom or full appeals court docket panel.
US appeals court docket Judges Sri Srinivasan, Neomi Rao and Douglas Ginsburg thought-about the authorized challenges introduced by TikTok and customers towards the regulation that provides ByteDance till Jan 19 to promote or divest TikTok’s US property or face a ban.
President Joe Biden, who signed the regulation in April, can grant a one-time extension of as much as 90 days, however provided that ByteDance has made important progress find a purchaser.
