TikTok will file a court challenge if Congress passes legislation paving the way to a nationwide ban of the app, a top executive told employees in an internal memo obtained by CNN.
On Saturday, the House of Representatives passed a foreign aid package containing language that could lead to a ban of TikTok – and the bill could pass the Senate within days, Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s head of public policy for the Americas, warned employees in the memo he sent the same day.
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“At the stage that the bill is signed [by President Joe Biden], we will move to the courts for a legal challenge,” Beckerman wrote to staff, describing the legislation as “an unprecedented deal worked out between the Republican Speaker [Mike Johnson] and President Biden.”
“This is the beginning, not the end of this long process,” Beckerman added. He …