{"id":996483,"date":"2026-03-06T07:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996483"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:37:12","slug":"trump-bondi-face-lawsuit-over-approval-of-bytedance-tiktok-us-asset-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/06\/trump-bondi-face-lawsuit-over-approval-of-bytedance-tiktok-us-asset-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Bondi face lawsuit over approval of ByteDance TikTok US asset sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald \u200bTrump and Attorney \u200bGeneral Pam Bondi were \u200bsued Thursday over the US government&#8217;s approval of a deal by \u200cTikTok&#8217;s Chinese \u2060owner \u2060ByteDance to establish a majority \u200bAmerican-owned joint venture, saying the approval was \u200billegal and did not meet the requirements of a 2024 \u200blaw. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was \u2060filed in \u200cthe U.S. Court \u200bof \u200bAppeals in the District \u2060of Columbia by the Public \u200bIntegrity Project on behalf of \u200btwo retail U.S. investors in rival social media firms. It aims to require a renegotiation of the \u200cdeal &#8220;that doesn&#8217;t put administration allies in a position \u200bto censor \u200bpolitical \u2060content on one of the world&#8217;s most popular media platforms.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald \u200bTrump and Attorney \u200bGeneral Pam Bondi were \u200bsued Thursday over the US government&#8217;s approval of a deal by \u200cTikTok&#8217;s Chinese \u2060owner \u2060ByteDance to establish a majority \u200bAmerican-owned joint venture, saying the approval was \u200billegal and did not meet the requirements of a 2024 \u200blaw. The lawsuit was \u2060filed in \u200cthe U.S. Court \u200bof \u200bAppeals in the District \u2060of Columbia by the Public \u200bIntegrity Project on behalf of \u200btwo retail U.S. investors in rival social media firms. It aims to require a renegotiation of the \u200cdeal &#8220;that doesn&#8217;t put administration allies in a position \u200bto censor \u200bpolitical \u2060content on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}