TikTok, a subsidiary of China's ByteDance Group, filed a lawsuit Monday against Montana, the US state that last week enacted a law to ban the app next year. This ban "violates the Constitution of the United States in many ways," says the company, including the First Amendment that guarantees "freedom of expression" Many U.S.
lawmakers believe that the platform of short and entertaining videos, frequented by 150 million Americans, allows Beijing to spy on and manipulate users.