TikTok loses bid to strike down law banning it from US

TikTok has lost its bid to strike down a law that could result in the platform being banned in the United States.

A US federal appeals court upheld a law on Friday requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year or face a ban.

The judges found that the law does not “contravene the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States,” nor does it “violate the Fifth Amendment guarantee of equal protection of the laws.”