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TikTok and dad or mum firm ByteDance filed a lawsuit late Friday towards the Trump administration to attempt to fend off a ban on new downloads of the app set to take impact Sunday, The Wall Road Journal reported.

TikTok says within the lawsuit that the Trump administration’s determination to ban new downloads of the app, introduced Friday, violates free speech protections. The administration, which incorporates the Commerce Division, “took this extraordinary motion of prohibiting a well-liked communication and information-sharing platform with out affording its homeowners … due technique of legislation, and for political causes reasonably than due to any ‘uncommon and extraordinary risk’ to the USA,” in response to the swimsuit.

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