Beijing, China - Date Unknown

Storyline:
TikTok, an online video entertainment platform, and its Chinese parent company ByteDance on Tuesday filed a legal challenge against the U.S. government over a law forcing ByteDance to sell off the ultra-popular app or face a nationwide ban in the country.

U.S. President Joe Biden signed a TikTok ban bill into law on April 24 after it was passed by both houses of U.S. Congress.

TikTok pointed out in the petition that the law, the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, is unconstitutional.

"Banning TikTok is so obviously unconstitutional, in fact, that even the Act's sponsors recognized that reality, and therefore have tried mightily to depict the law not as a ban at all, but merely a regulation of TikTok's ownership," said TikTok.

The law only gives ByteDance 270 days to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer, with the possibility of a 90-day extension if the U.S. President determines it necessary.

Shotlist:
FILE: Beijing, China - Date Unknown:
1. Various of logos of ByteDance, its news app Toutiao at reception desk in Toutiao's office;
2. Various of ByteDance employees working;
FILE: Tunis, Tunisia - Date Unknown:
3. User watching TikTok videos;
FILE: Los Angeles, USA - Date Unknown:
4. Various of TikTok content creators filming dance video
5. Various of TikTok platform;
FILE: Washington D.C., USA - May 12, 2020:
6. White House;
FILE: Washington D.C., USA - March 14, 2020:
7. U.S. Capitol building,

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