We arent going anywhere: TikTok CEO expects to defeat US restrictions [Video]

TIKTOK’S chief executive said on Wednesday (Apr 24) that the company expects to win a legal challenge to block legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden that he said would ban the popular short video app used by 170 million Americans.

“Rest assured – we aren’t going anywhere,” CEO Shou Zi Chew said in a video posted moments after Biden signed the Bill that gives China-based ByteDance 270 days to divest Tiktok’s US assets or face a ban. “The facts and the Constitution are on our side and we expect to prevail again.”

In 2020, then-President Donald Trump was blocked by the courts in his bid to ban TikTok and Chinese-owned WeChat, a unit of Tencent, in the US.

Chew added: “Make no mistake – this is a ban on TikTok.” He emphasised that TikTok would continue to operate as the company challenges the restrictions.

Driven by widespread worries …