Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a federal law requiring the Chinese-owned company ByteDance Ltd. to divest its ownership of the social media platform TikTok.
“In August, I joined an amicus brief supporting the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act passed overwhelmingly by Congress. This act requires ByteDance, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, to divest its ownership of TikTok by January 19, 2025.
“In its decision to uphold this law, the court has protected Americans from being influenced and manipulated by a foreign adversary. I am proud to have joined the amicus in support of this law, and I will continue my efforts to protect Arkansans from the deceptive practices of TikTok. We must be vigilant across all fronts to keep our private information out of the hands of the communist Chinese government.”
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