The Chinese video application TikTok will bring to justice the measures against her adopted by the president of the United States, Donald Trump , who accuses her of serving the espionage of Beijing.
"To ensure that the right is respected and that our company and our users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge the decree (signed by Trump) through the judicial system," the group wrote in a message transmitted to the agency. AFP. The company will file the appeal on Monday, ByteDance, the Chinese group that owns the app, said in a subsequent statement.
Trump has accused the video-sharing platform for several months, without proof, of diverting data from US users for the benefit of Beijing. Trump signed an executive order on August 6 giving Americans 45 days to stop doing business with Bytedance.
In the context of trade and political tensions between the United States and China, the president signed a similar decree against the WeChat platform, which belongs to the Chinese giant Tencent.
Faced with these decisions, the Beijing government denounced "political manipulation and repression" by Washington.
The decrees do not specify the practical consequences, but a ban on any transaction with the two companies could force Google and Apple to remove the two networks from their app stores, preventing their use in the United States.
"Although we do not agree at all with the accusations of the US administration, we have been seeking for almost a year to enter into discussions in good faith to find a solution," said the lawsuit of the Chinese company filed on Saturday.
"But instead we have encountered a lack of respect for legal procedures to the extent that the (Trump) administration does not stick to the facts and tries to meddle in negotiations between private companies," adds TikTok , without specifying in which jurisdiction you plan to file your claim.
Citing national security concerns, Trump also gave ByteDance until mid-November to sell the network's US operations, under penalty of blocking it in the United States.
The software giant Microsoft was the first to express its intention to acquire TikTok. But Donald Trump recently voiced support for a potential takeover offer from Oracle , a group co-founded by Larry Ellison, a fervent supporter of the Republican president, which has raised millions of dollars for his campaign.
TikTok has based its success on tools to create and share short and unconventional videos, play music and humor, and distribute them using algorithms.
The entertainment platform has nearly a billion users worldwide, with a popularity that has grown thanks to months of blocking.
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